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1930
White South African women get the right to vote.

1930
Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess.

1931
Jane Addams receives the Nobel Prize for Peace.

1932
Women of Brazil and Thailand are granted the right to vote.

1932
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints Frances Perkins secretary of labor, and she becomes the first American female cabinet member.

1933
Portugal's new constitution specifically denies women's equal rights.

1933
In Nazi Germany, girls are inducted into the Jungmädel (“Young Maidens”) and Bund Deutscher Mädel (“League of German Girls”). The organizations stress the importance of virtue and motherhood.

1933
American author Gertrude Stein publishes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

1933
In Italy, Mussolini rewards women who have more than 14 children.

1934
African American author Zora Neale Hurston publishes her first book, Jonah's Gourd Vine.

1934
Cuban law requires equal pay for equal work.

1935
Anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, challenging Western assumptions about gender relations.

1936
British pilot Beryl Markham becomes the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west.

1937
Women in the Philippines get the right to vote.

1937
The American Medical Association recognizes birth control as a legitimate topic for medical school classes.

1938
In France, women are admitted into unarmed military divisions.

1939
Marian Anderson gives a concert to an audience of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution prevent her from singing at Constitution Hall because of her race.

1940
Margaret Chase Smith is elected to fill her late husband's seat in the U.S. Congress; she becomes the first woman to serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

1940
The U.S. Republican Party comes out in support of the Equal Rights Amendment.

1941
The Soviet Union creates three all-female pilot regiments. The most highly decorated is the 586th Women's Fighter Regiment.

1941
Pacifist Jeannette Rankin places the only congressional vote against U.S. entry into World War II.

1942
American women enlist in two newly created military bodies, the Women's Army Corps (WAC) and Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).

1942
Elise Richter, the first female professor in Austria and a noted linguist, is deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Theresienstadt, where she later dies.

1943
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League is founded by Chicago Cubs owner Philip Wrigley.

1943
More than 310,000 women take jobs in the U.S. aircraft industry. Wartime propaganda urges women to join the labour force for the duration of World War II.

1943
Physicist Elda Emma Anderson is recruited to work at Los Alamos on the development of the atomic bomb.

1944
Indian Muslim Noor un Nissa, the first British secret agent in the Nazi Party, is shot by the Gestapo.

1945
Diarist Anne Frank dies in the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Two years later her father publishes her diary of their years spent in hiding.

1945
Eleanor Roosevelt becomes a delegate to the newly created United Nations.

1945
More than six million American women who entered the workforce during World War II are pushed out of their traditionally male jobs at war's end.