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January 19 – March for Life 2018 - The annual March for Life protest through Washington, D.C., in dissent of the decision made in the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade. January 20 and 21 – 2018 Women's March - Thousands took to the streets on the anniversary of the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States. [65]
The Women's March [11] [12] [13] [a] was a worldwide protest on January 21, 2017, the day after the first inauguration of Donald Trump as the president of the United States. It was prompted by Trump's policy positions and rhetoric, which were and are seen as misogynistic and representative as a threat to the rights of women.
The Supreme Court strikes down onerous abortion clinic regulations that were forcing women's clinics to close. 2017– Congress has a record number of women, with 104 female House members and 21 ...
Florida: Mary R. Grizzle introduces and passes the Married Women Property Rights Act, giving married women in Florida, for the first time, the right to own property solely in their names and to transfer that property without their husbands' signatures. [136] 1971. Barring women from practicing law becomes prohibited. [137]
The women's liberation movement in North America was part of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and through the 1980s. Derived from the civil rights movement, student movement and anti-war movements, the Women's Liberation Movement took rhetoric from the civil rights idea of liberating victims of discrimination from oppression.
Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674106539. Echols, Alice (1990). Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975. Rosen, Ruth (2006). The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. Penguin Publishing. ISBN 0670814628
On January 20, 2018, in New York City, Halsey delivered a speech to thousands of protesters at the second annual Women's March. [38] The Me Too and Time's Up movements have pushed progressive activists, including celebrities, to demand immediate social and political change.
Approaching the issue of women’s rights from a practical and common-sense perspective that puts America first is beautifully aligned with America’s new direction under President Trump.