March is Women's History Month!!!!

[Kobi]

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.