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  2. Timeline of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1845: Lowell Female Labor Reform Association opened in 1845 as the first major labor union. [7] 1848: The Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, is held in Seneca Falls, New York. [4] 1855: New York Women's Hospital opened in 1855 as the first hospital solely devoted to ailments affiliated with women. [8]

  3. History of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The study of women's history has been a major scholarly and popular field, with many scholarly books and articles, museum exhibits, and courses in schools and universities. The roles of women were long ignored in textbooks and popular histories.

  4. Timeline of feminism - Wikipedia

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    That said, radical feminists also recognize that women's experiences differ according to other divisions in society such as race and sexual orientation. [7] [8] 1967: "The Discontent of Women", by Joke Kool-Smits, was published; [9] the publication of this essay is often regarded as the start of second-wave feminism in the Netherlands. [10]

  5. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US - AOL

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    Women have made great strides – and suffered some setbacks – throughout history, but many of their gains were made during the two eras of activism in favor of women's rights. Some notable events:

  6. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) - Wikipedia

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    The timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. The changes include actual law reforms, as well as other formal changes (e.g., reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents ).

  7. 15 notable firsts for women in history - AOL

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    Women's history is much more than chronicling a string of "firsts." Female pioneers have long fought for equal rights and demanded to be treated equally as they chartered new territory in fields ...

  8. 22 Famous Women in History You Need to Learn About ASAP

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    Wells became editor and co-owner of the Memphis Free Speech newspaper in 1889 and wrote about a myriad of issues around inequality, including revealing the practices of lynching. A white mob ...

  9. Timeline of second-wave feminism - Wikipedia

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    National Women's History Project. "Detailed Timeline | National Women's History Project". National Women's History Project. Imbornoni, Ann-Marie (13 January 2018). "Timeline of Key Events in the American Women's Rights Movement 1921–1979". Infoplease. Sandbox Networks, Inc., publishing as Infoplease. Rampton, Martha (25 October 2015) [2008].