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Early 20th century: 1909 to 1929
1909
The Sri Lanka Tamil Women's Union is created. 1909 Aleksandra Kollontay publishes The Social Foundations of the Women's Question while in exile from Russia. 1909 Mary White Ovington and Ida B. Wells-Barnett help found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). 1909 In New York, shirtwaist workers go on strike. The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) and the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) work together in support of the strike. 1911 Imprisoned British suffragists stage hunger strikes. 1911 Marie Curie is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the isolation of pure radium. 1911 Journalist and publisher Kalliroe Parren establishes the Lyceum of Greek Women. 1911 The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York City kills 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women. They were unable to escape because the exit doors had been locked to prevent theft. 1912 Juliette Gordon Low founds the Girl Guides (later Girl Scouts) in the United States. By 1927 there will be a troop in every state. 1913 Norwegian women win the right to vote. 1913 English suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested for conspiracy to blow up David Lloyd George's home. While in jail, she goes on a hunger strike. 1913 In Washington, D.C., Alice Paul and the National American Woman Suffrage Association organize a huge march on the Capitol the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. 1914 In Russia, Princess Eugenie Shakhovskaya is the first female military pilot. She flies reconnaissance missions. 1914 American activist Margaret Sanger is indicted under the Comstock Act for distributing a birth control pamphlet titled Family Limitation. 1915 Danish women win the right to vote. 1915 Carrie Chapman Catt and Jane Addams combine several American pacifist organizations to create the Women's Peace Party. 1915 The International Congress of Women meets at The Hague to consider ways to end World War I. 1916 The British government recruits 400,000 women to work in agriculture while men are at war. 1916 Jeannette Rankin is elected to Congress from Montana; she is the first female member of the U.S. House of Representatives. 1916 María Jesús Alvarado Rivera establishes Evolución Femenina, Peru's first women's organization. 1917 Soon after coming to power in Russia, the Bolsheviks reform marriage laws, create maternity leave, and establish equal employment and wages. 1917 Laws passed in Cuba protect women's custody of children, divorce rights, and property rights. 1917 The U.S. Navy hires 12,000 women as clerks in the same job classifications and for the same pay as men so that it can send men overseas. 1917 Feminist Kimura Komako organizes the first Japanese woman suffrage meeting. 1917 On March 8, Russian women strike for “bread and peace,” helping spark the revolution that overthrows the imperial government. The date is later chosen to mark International Women's Day. 1918 Canadian and British women are granted the right to vote, although in Great Britain a woman must be over age 30. 1918 The Indian National Congress endorses giving women the right to vote. 1918 Peruvians pass a law granting working women two hours a day to nurse their infants. 1918 The U.S. government reports that 1.4 million women work in war industries. After World War I these women are forced out of industrial work. 1918 British birth-control activist Marie Stopes publishes the controversial and best-selling books Married Love and Wise Parenthood. 1919 Lady Astor becomes the first female member of the British House of Commons. 1919 The Treaty of Versailles includes a requirement that women receive equal pay. The clause is universally ignored. 1920 In Chile the National Council of Women is created to agitate for women's rights. 1920 In Japan, Hiratsuka Raicho, Oku Mumeo, and Ichikawa Fusae found the Shin Fujin Kyokai (“Association of New Women”) to work for women's unions and equal rights. 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is signed into law, giving women the right to vote. 1920 Despite death threats from the Ku Klux Klan, Mary McLeod Bethune begins a voter registration drive for African American women. 1920 Edith Eder from Hungary, Rebecca Sieff from Britain, and Vera Weizmann from Russia found the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO). 1920 The University of Oxford admits its first full-degree female students. 1920 Joan of Arc is canonized. 1921 Agnes McPhail becomes the first female Canadian member of Parliament. 1921 Grace Abbott becomes head of the United States Children's Bureau. She works for better health care for children and mothers as well as laws against child labour. 1921 The German Nazi Party excludes women from membership. 1921 Margaret Sanger founds the American Birth Control League, which later becomes the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. 1922 Bertha Lutz founds the Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of Women. 1922 Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton becomes the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. She serves only two days. 1923 Egyptian feminist Huda Shaarawi publicly unveils and inspires many other women to do the same. 1924 Chinese women demonstrate when Sun Yat-sen's National Congress denies them suffrage. 1925 The first women's college in Korea, Ewha Womans College (founded 1886), is accredited. 1926 New Argentine legislation gives women equality under the civil code. 1927 Norwegian-born figure skater Sonja Henie wins her first world amateur championship. She goes on to win the next nine world championships and gold medals at the Olympics in 1928, 1932, and 1936. 1929 Margaret Grace Bondfield is named minister of labour and becomes the first British female cabinet minister. 1929 Virginia Woolf publishes A Room of One's Own.
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 Poker Alice (Alice Ivers Duffield Tubbs Huckert) (February 17, 1851 - February 27, 1930), was the best known female poker player in the American West. When she was twenty, the petite, attractive Alice married the mining engineer and avid gambler Frank Duffield. Alice joined her husband on his gambling excursions and quickly learned to master both poker and faro. When Frank was killed in an explosion, Alice began to earn her livelihood as a professional gambler. Alice died at the age of 79.  Virne Beatrice "Jackie" Mitchell Gilbert (Aug 29,1912,13or14–Jan 7,1987) was one of the first female pitchers in professional baseball history.Pitching for the Chattanooga Lookouts Class AA minor league baseball team in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees, she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Landis voided her contract and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was "too strenuous".
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Economic and political upheaval: 1930 to 1945
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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.
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 Mary McLeod Bethune (1873-1955) was... a graduate of Moody Bible Institute, she opened a school for black girls.... From 1935-1944 she was a special advisor on minority affairs" to FDR. "She was the first black woman to head a federal agency." She also worked as a "consultant on interracial affairs" for the United Nations. Mary founded the "National Council Youth Administration of Negro Women and was director of Negro Affairs for the National Youth Administration."  Susanna "Dora" Salter, born on 3/2/1860. In 1887, at age 27, she was elected Mayor of Argonia, Kansas, becoming the 1st woman mayor and the 1st woman elected to political office in the United States.
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 Remember this lady? I didn't either. Irena Sendler Died: May 12, 2008 (aged 98) Warsaw, Poland During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive. Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried. She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids. Irena kept a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. Ultimately, she was caught, however, and the Nazi's broke both of her legs and arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smuggled out, In a glass jar that she buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and tried to reunite the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted. In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming. Please share this to honor the sacrifice and courage of this fine human being who gave so much and saved so many. http://www.irenasendler.org/
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Postwar growth and social reform: 1946 to 1974
1946
Sudan's first modern women's organization, the Sudanese Women's League, is founded. 1947 The new Japanese constitution guarantees women's equality. 1947 The U.S. Congress passes the Army-Navy Nurse Act, creating permanent commissions for military nurses. The first officer commissioned is Florence Blanchfield. 1948 In the newly created countries of Israel and South Korea, women win the right to vote. 1949 Argentinian Eva Perón founds the Peronista Feminist Party. 1949 French feminist Simone de Beauvoir publishes the controversial and influential Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex). 1950 Harvard Law School admits women. 1950 The U.S. Census Bureau recognizes a woman's right to continue to use her maiden name after marriage. 1951 The Women's Equal Rights Act, which prohibits gender discrimination, is passed in Israel. 1952 Chilean Ana Figueroa becomes the first woman on the United Nations Security Council. 1953 In Westminster Abbey, Elizabeth II is crowned queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 1954 Colombian women are granted the right to vote. 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Her arrest for this act sparks the Montgomery bus boycott. 1956 Golda Meir becomes the only woman in the Israeli cabinet when she is made minister of foreign affairs. 1958 The British House of Lords admits its first female members. 1961 Eleanor Roosevelt chairs U.S. President John F. Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women. 1961 Paraguay is the last republic in the Americas to give women the right to vote. 1961 Wilma Rudolph runs the 100-metre dash in 11.2 seconds, thereby setting a a new world record for the event. 1961 American women organized by Women Strike for Peace stage a one-day strike asking the government to “End the Arms Race, Not the Human Race.” 1962 American biologist Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring. 1963 Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. 1963 American feminist Betty Friedan publishes her highly influential The Feminine Mystique. 1963 Ellen Ash Peters becomes the first woman to be granted tenure at Yale Law School. 1964 The U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, creed, national origin, or sex. 1965 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Griswold v. State of Connecticut that laws prohibiting the use of birth control are unconstitutional. 1966 Betty Friedan and other delegates to the Third National Conference of the Commission on the Status of Women establish the National Organization for Women (NOW). 1966 Indira Gandhi wins leadership of the Congress Party and becomes the first female prime minister of India. 1967 Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. 1968 Nguyen Thi Binh, a member of the Central Committee of the National Liberation Front, leads the Vietnamese delegation to the Paris Peace Conference. 1968 Japanese writer Ishimure Michiko starts a movement against pollution by publishing Kukai jodo (“Sea of Suffering”), documenting the damage done by dumping mercury into Minamata Bay. 1969 In Ecuador a “malaria control” program is used as a cover to sterilize peasant women. 1969 Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel. 1970 Marie Cox founds the North American Indian Women's Association, the first national Native American women's group. 1970 The Boston Women's Health Book Collective publishes Our Bodies, Ourselves. 1971 The National Commission on the Status of Women in India is created. 1971 Helga Pederson of Denmark becomes the first female judge on the European Court of Human Rights. 1971 Women in Switzerland win the right to vote. 1972 The U.S. Senate approves the Equal Rights Amendment and sends it to the states for ratification. 1972 The National Conference of Puerto Rican Women is founded. 1973 American tennis champion Billie Jean King defeats champion player Bobby Riggs in a “Battle of the Sexes” match. 1973 Jordanian women are granted the right to vote. 1973 Mothers of Nicaraguan political prisoners go on a hunger strike. 1973 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Roe v. Wade that a woman has a constitutional right to abortion. 1974 The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy becomes the first U.S. service academy to enroll women.
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 A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Lt. Col. Nicole Malachowski has flown the F-15E as a member of five different fighter squadrons since 1999. Here, she shares her experience as the first female Thunderbird pilot, serving as a White House Fellow and being the commander of the largest fighter training unit in the Air Force.  Katrina Hodge: Corporal in the British Army & Miss England '09. She enlisted in the army on a dare from her brother & was nicknamed Combat Barbie after showing up to her unit wearing fake eyelashes, heels, & carrying a pink suitcase. While serving in Iraq, she saved the lives of her comrades by wresting not 1 but 2 rifles from a prisoner, then knocking him out w/ her bare hands. After winning the Miss England contest in 2009, she handed over the crown & returned to military service.
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Mercedes de Acosta
 Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1893 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Four of de Acosta's plays were produced, and she published a novel and three volumes of poetry. She was professionally unsuccessful but is known for her many lesbian affairs with famous Broadway and Hollywood personalities and numerous friendships with prominent artists of the period. She has been linked to the likes of actress Alla Nazimova, dancer Isadora Duncan, with actress Eva Le Gallienne, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Ona Munson, and Russian ballerina Tamara Platonovna Karsavina. Additional unsubstantiated rumors include Pola Negri, Eleonora Duse, Katherine Cornell, and Alice B. Toklas. An ardent liberal, de Acosta was committed to several political causes. Concerned about the Spanish Civil War, which began in 1936, for example, she supported the loyalist Republican government that opposed the fascist Franco regime. A tireless advocate for women's rights, she wrote in her memoir, "I believed...in every form of independence for women and I was...an enrolled worker for women's suffrage." Mercedes de Acosta was not hugely famous. Her contributions to the theater were minimal. Yet her story reveals a woman who stood up courageously for her beliefs and values. She seldom stumbled, even when her friends and peers turned against her. She lived her desire and paid the price. Her love for other women and her struggle for acceptance were certainly sources of her originality and fueled her writing. Perhaps the description of her as "that furious lesbian" should become an admirable attribute rather than a scornful slur.
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