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Led by a Santa Rosa teacher, an educational task force planned a "Women’s History Week" celebration in 1978, which included a parade, essay contest, and dozens of presentations on women's ...
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s (1984). online; Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Campus life : undergraduate cultures from the end of the eighteenth century to the present (1987) Nash, Margaret A. Women's Education in the United States 1780–1840 (2005) Norton, Mary Beth.
[citation needed] Today, women increasingly pursue politics as a career. [citation needed] At the state and national level, women have brought attention to gender-sensitive topics, gender equality, and children's rights. Women's participation rate is higher at local levels of government. [citation needed]
The Huffington Post reached out to historians across the country to create a list of women who deserve more recognition for their accomplishments. Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work.
“Donald Trump helped me get to where I am today. And he’s a constant champion for women with whom he surrounds himself.” She pointed out there are “so many great examples of strong women ...
The Women's History Research Center collected nearly one million documents on microfilm, and provided resources and records of the Women's liberation movement that are now available through the National Women's History Alliance, which carried on their ideas, including successfully petitioning Congress to declare March as Women's History Month. [7]
Also in 1925, the World Exposition of Women's Progress (the first women's world's fair) opened in Chicago. [228] In 1926, Gertrude Ederle, born in New York, became the first woman to swim across the English channel, arriving in almost two hours less time than any of the men who had swum across before her. [229]