March is Women's History Month!!!!

[The_Lady_Snow]

[Kobi]

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Aung San Suu Kyi was selected Sunday to continue as head of Myanmar’s main opposition party, keeping her leadership post even as the party undergoes a makeover to adjust to the country’s new democratic framework.

Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma. In the 1990 general election, the NLD won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament. She had, however, already been detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most recent release on 13 November 2010, becoming one of the world's most prominent political prisoners.

Suu Kyi received the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

In 1992 she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding by the government of India and the International Simón Bolívar Prize from the government of Venezuela.

In 2007, the Government of Canada made her an honorary citizen of that country, the fourth person ever to receive the honour.

In 2011, she was awarded the Wallenberg Medal.

On 19 September 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi was also presented with the Congressional Gold Medal, which is, along with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in the United States.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asi...hLM/story.html

[meridiantoo]

Joan of Arc

Every housewife who gave up the pursuit of her individual life for the life with her spouse and children. They are forgotten in the annals of great women.

[Kobi]

1519
Mexican Indian princess and slave Doña Marina becomes translator and mistress of Hernán Cortés as he conquers New Spain.

1528
In the Gulf of Mexico, 10 Spanish women accompany their husbands on a voyage of discovery. After the men are lost, the women search for them for a year, then settle in Veracruz.

1553
Mary Tudor becomes queen of England and has Lady Jane Grey, who had been queen for nine days, beheaded the following year. Mary's persecution of Protestants earns her the name Bloody Mary.

1558
Elizabeth I, half-sister of Mary Tudor, becomes queen of England. She brings religious tolerance for Protestants and ushers in an era of exploration.

1587
Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded by order of Queen Elizabeth I.

1603
Okuni, a Japanese dancer of the Izumo shrine, invents Kabuki.

1607
Pocahontas saves Jamestown colonist Captain John Smith from execution by Algonquian Chief Powhatan.

1629
Tokugawa shogun Iemitsu bans women from Kabuki theatre because it is considered immoral for women to dance in public.

1638
Anne Hutchinson is expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for “traducing the ministers” of that Puritan colony. She and other religious dissenters found Rhode Island.

1642
Brilliana, Lady Harley, defends Brampton Bryan Castle from the Royalist army in her husband's absence during the English Civil Wars.

1643
Blanche, Lady Arundel, holds off the English Parliamentarian troops who attack Wardour Castle while her husband is away.

1644
On her 18th birthday, Queen Christina ascends the throne of Sweden.

1648
Margaret Brent, one of the largest landowners in Maryland, asks the Maryland Assembly for two votes, one for herself and another as Leonard Calvert's administrator and Lord Baltimore's attorney. Her request is denied.

1650
Anne Bradstreet's first volume of poems, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, is published in London.

1660
Mary Barrett Dyer is executed in Boston for her Quaker proselytizing.

1669
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz enters the convent of Santa Paula in Mexico City. Her religious life allows her to dedicate herself to scholarship and lyric poetry.

1681
La Fontaine makes her debut at the Paris Opéra as the first female professional ballet dancer.

1682
Mary Rowlandson publishes A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, describing her capture by Narragansett warriors and three months of captivity.

1682
Sophia becomes regent of Russia for her brother Ivan after she leads a palace coup against their half-brother Peter, who becomes coruler.

1692
The Salem witch trials condemn 19 to die; most of the accused and the accusers are women.

1702
Queen Anne ascends the throne of England.

1704
Twenty-five Frenchwomen, called “Cassette girls,” journey to Mobile on the Gulf Coast of North America to find husbands. Initially they refuse to marry any of the colonists, because of the crude conditions they find.

1711
Queen Anne founds the Ascot races.

1715
Elizabeth Elstob publishes The Rudiments of Grammar, the first Anglo-Saxon grammar.

1718
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu advocates smallpox inoculation, which she has seen in Constantinople.

1725
Catherine I becomes ruler of Russia on the death of her husband, Peter the Great.

1741
Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney introduces indigo cultivation in South Carolina; by 1742 she has a successful crop.

1748
Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi publishes Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventù italiana (“Analytical Institutions for the Use of Italian Youth”).

1750
Hannah Snell publishes The Female Soldier, an account of her exploits in the British army fighting against the supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie as well as her years as a marine in India.

1762
Sophie Friederike Auguste, princess von Anhalt-Zerbst, ascends the Russian throne as Catherine II several months after forcing her husband, Peter III, to abdicate. She rules as an “enlightened despot” until 1796.

1770
Phillis Wheatley, the first African American woman poet of note in the United States, publishes her first poem, An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of the Celebrated Divine…George Whitefield.

1774
Joining many other colonial women boycotting British goods, 51 women in Edenton, North Carolina, sign a petition endorsing the Nonimportation Association resolves.

1776
Ann Lee founds the parent Shaker settlement in America in the woods of Niskeyuna, New York.

1778
On June 28, Mary McCauly (“Molly Pitcher”), wife of an American gunner, brings water to the troops at the Battle of Monmouth Court House. Legend claims that she takes her husband's place after he collapses.

1778
Laura Bassi, author of De problemate quodam mechanico and De problemate quodam hydrometrico and the first woman professor of physics (at the University of Bologna), dies.

1782
Deborah Sampson, disguised as a man, enlists in the 4th Massachusetts Regiment as Robert Shurtleff. She is one of many women who fight in the American Revolution.

1783
German-born British astronomer Caroline Herschel discovers three nebulae.

1783
Catherine II (the Great) of Russia makes Yekaterina Dashkova the first president of the newly founded Russian Academy, which promotes the study and use of the Russian language.

1789
More than 8,000 Parisian market women march to Versailles and present their demands, which include more affordable bread, to the National Assembly and the king.

c. 1790
In the United States, the Second Great Awakening begins; significantly more women than men participate in this wave of religious revival.

1791
French activist Olympia de Gouges publishes Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne (“Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the [Female] Citizen”), in which she argues that women are citizens as much as are men. She goes to the guillotine in 1793.

1792
Englishwoman Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

1793
Four years after the start of the French Revolution, queen consort Marie-Antoinette is guillotined.

1793
Hannah Slater receives the first U.S. patent granted to a woman, for a type of cotton thread. Her invention helps her husband build a successful textile business.

1795
Anne Parrish founds the House of Industry, which provides employment to poor women. It is the first American charitable organization operated by women for women.

1800
The United States logs the highest birth rate in the world, 7.04 children per woman.

[Kobi]

Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, (Sept 23,1838–June 9,1927)was an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement. Woodhull was an advocate of free love, by which she meant the freedom to marry, divorce, and bear children without government interference. She was the first woman to start a weekly newspaper; an activist for women's rights and labor reforms. She was the first woman candidate for President of the United States, the newly formed Equal Rights Party on May 10,1872.

[femmeInterrupted]

Frances Power Cobbe -Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist, and leading suffragette. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) in 1875, and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in 1898, and was a member of the executive council of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage (Irish Feminism)

[Kobi]

1803
Parliament passes the first British abortion law, prohibiting abortion after quickening.

1804
The Napoleonic Code of France considers women—like criminals, children, and the insane—to be legal minors. A woman's husband controls her property and, in the case of divorce, gets the children.

1804
Native American Sacagawea, whose husband is a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, serves as a guide and interpreter for the group.

1805
Mercy Otis Warren publishes her influential History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, drawing in part on personal knowledge of the prominent figures of the time.

1807
New Jersey revokes the right of women to vote, a right they had been granted since the adoption of the constitution of New Jersey in 1776.

1813
In England, Elizabeth Fry advocates reform of Newgate Prison, in which 300 women and children are housed under appalling conditions.

1816
Nanny Grigg, a slave in Barbados, plays a significant role in the island's only serious slave rebellion.

1817
The South African warrior queen Mmanthatisi becomes the leader of the Tlokwa (a southern Sotho group). She plans military strategy and leads the nation to a new homeland in Lesotho.

1821
Colombian women gain the right to attend university.

1821
Emma Willard opens the Troy Female Seminary in New York and begins teaching a rigorous curriculum to girls.

1825
Frances Wright founds a utopian community at Nashoba, Tennessee, trying to put into practice her ideas for gradual emancipation of slaves. The plantation fails but attracts wide publicity.

1833
Lydia Maria Child publishes An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, arguing for the abolition of slavery.

1833
Lord Byron's daughter, Augusta Ada King, countess of Lovelace, begins studying Charles Babbage's “difference engine.” She becomes, arguably, the world's first computer programmer. More than a century later the computer language Ada is named for her.

1833
Oberlin Collegiate Institute (later Oberlin College) is founded in Ohio as the first American college to admit men and women on an equal basis.

1834
In Lowell, Massachusetts, women mill workers stage a successful strike to reverse a 25 percent cut in their pay.

1835
Marie Tussaud establishes her collection of wax figures in a permanent location on Baker Street in London.

1837
The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women is held in New York City.

1837
Victoria ascends the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1840
Female delegates are refused admittance to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London. This event leads Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to call the first women's rights convention.

1841
Australian philanthropist Caroline Chisholm founds the Female Immigrants' Home in Sydney to assist poor women in finding work.

1843
The reports of American Dorothea Dix to the Massachusetts legislature about the conditions in prisons for the insane lead to reform.

1844
The English Factory Act establishes the 12-hour workday for female factory workers.

1845
Swedish women win equal rights of inheritance.

1848
The Seneca Falls Convention is held and launches the woman suffrage movement in the United States. The document produced is the Declaration of Sentiments, patterned after the Declaration of Independence.

1849
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland to Philadelphia. By the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, Tubman will have returned to the South some 19 times and rescued upward of 300 other slaves.

1849
Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first modern-day woman doctor of medicine in the United States.

1851
African American evangelist and reformer Sojourner Truth gives her famous speech in defense of the rights of black women, “Ain't I a Woman?”

1851
The new Guatemalan constitution grants full citizenship to financially independent women.

1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of the most important antislavery novels in America; it sells 300,000 copies in the first year.

1853
Antoinette Brown Blackwell becomes a Congregational minister and is the first woman ordained by a recognized denomination in the United States.

1853
Queen Victoria is administered chloroform during the delivery of her eighth child. Her approval and recommendation of it popularizes use of the anesthetic.

1854
Florence Nightingale begins nursing casualties during the Crimean War and effectively establishes nursing as a profession for women. Her efforts help reduce the death rate from combat injuries from 42 percent to 2.2 percent.

1860
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody founds the first English-language kindergarten in the United States.

[Kobi]

Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman (Jan 26, 1892–April 30, 1926) an American civil aviator, was the first female pilot of African American descent and the first person of African American descent to hold an international pilot license.

Stagecoach” Mary Fields (c. 1832-1914) was born a slave in Tennessee and following the Civil War, she moved to the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana. In 1895, when she was around 60 years old, Fields became the second woman and first African American carrier for the US Postal Service. Despite her age, she never missed a day of work in the ten years she carried the mail and earned the nickname “Stagecoach” for her reliability.

[Kobi]

1862
In Sweden, single women who pay taxes win the right to vote in municipal elections.

1863
Mary Edwards Walker becomes a surgeon for the Union army in the American Civil War. In 1865 she receives a Congressional Medal of Honor. It is revoked shortly before her death and then reawarded posthumously.

c. 1863
More than 2,000 warriors form the Dahomey women's army, all of them technically wives of the king. Using bows, guns, and knives, they fight to capture prisoners.

1865
Sarah Edmonds publishes her autobiography, Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, describing her undercover work disguised as a man named Frank Thompson.

1865
The University of Zürich becomes the first European university to admit women.

1867
In Britain, the first petition for woman suffrage is presented to Parliament.

1867
In St. Andrews, Scotland, the Ladies' Golf Club is founded. 1868
In Thailand, Amdang Munan refuses to marry the man her parents picked for her. She prevails upon the king to rule that women may choose their own husbands.

1869
Married women in Britain gain the right to own property. 1869
Iowan Arabella Mansfield is the first woman admitted to the bar in the United States.

1869
Americans Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony found the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).

1869
Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell help found the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).

1872
Charlotte E. Ray, the first African American woman lawyer, becomes the first woman admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia.

1872
In Japan, primary education for girls as well as boys is required by law. 1872
Susan B. Anthony leads 15 women to vote in Rochester, New York. She is arrested two weeks later.

1874
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is founded.

1876
Tokyo Women's Normal School trains women as elementary teachers.

1877
Eudora Clark Atkinson is the first woman superintendent of the first women's state reformatory in the United States.

1877
Chilean women are allowed to attend university.

1877
Mother Jones helps lead the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, railroad strike.

1879
American Mary Baker Eddy heads the newly created First Church of Christ, Scientist.

c. 1880
Paiute Indian leader Sarah Winnemucca protests conditions on Indian reservations.

1881
In the United States the Indian Treaty-Keeping and Protective Association (later Women's National Indian Association) is founded by Mary Lucinda Bonney and Amelia Stone Quinton.

1881
Clara Barton establishes the American branch of the Red Cross and becomes its first president.

1881
Sofya Perovskaya helps to plan the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. She is arrested, tried, found guilty, and executed.

1881
Helen Hunt Jackson publishes A Century of Dishonor, a profound condemnation of the treatment of Native Americans by the United States.

1884
Wimbledon holds its first women's singles championship; Maud Watson wins.

1886
Women in Palestine agitate for the right to vote.

1886
Anandibai Joshee is the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree.

1889
Journalist Nellie Bly sets off around the world to beat the fictional record of Phileas Fogg.

1889
Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr found Hull House in Chicago. It is one of the first settlement houses in the United States and the most famous.

1889
Wyoming, a U.S. territory, approves a constitution that is the first in the world to grant full voting rights to women.

1890
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is founded.

1890
Alice Stone Blackwell and others oversee the merger of two older organizations to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

1891
Liliuokalani becomes queen of Hawaii.

1892
Belgian activist Marie Popelin helps found the Belgian League of Women's Rights.

1892
Journalist Ida Wells-Barnett begins her campaign against lynching. Her newspaper offices are burned, and she is driven out of Memphis, Tennessee.

1892
The Royal Geographical Society admits Isabella Bird Bishop, its first female member.

1892
In Massachusetts, Senda Berenson introduces basketball at Smith College for women. 1

893
Largely through the efforts of suffragist Kate Sheppard, New Zealand becomes the first country to grant women the right to vote.

1893
In New York, Lillian D. Wald and Mary M. Brewster found the Henry Street Settlement on Manhattan's Lower East Side. It will become the home of the first visiting nurse organization.

1893
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine opens in Baltimore, Maryland. The women's committee that funds the school insists that men and women be admitted equally. \

1896
In Zimbabwe, legends hold, the ancestral spirit Ambuya Nehanda enters the body of a woman, who then starts a revolt against the British.

1896
The U.S. Geological Survey hires its first woman, geologist Florence Bascom.

1897
Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, commemorating 60 years as Great Britain's monarch.

1897
Americans Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst found the National Congress of Mothers, later called the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). 1

898
Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes Women and Economics. She argues that the lost talent of women hampers the entire economy.

1898
The Chinese dowager empress Cixi regains power from the emperor. In 1900 she supports the Boxer Rebellion against the foreign powers.

1899
Kansan Carry Nation begins her campaign to close saloons, physically attacking bars with her hatchet.

1899
Korean women organize Yo-u-hoe, the Association of Women Friends, to fight against concubinage.

1899
Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League campaign against child labour and sweatshops and in favour of minimum wage legislation, shorter hours, improved conditions, and safety laws.

1900
Efficiency expert and industrial psychologist Lillian Moller (later Gilbreth) becomes the first female commencement speaker at the University of California at Berkeley.

1900
British tennis player Charlotte Cooper wins the first women's gold medal at the Olympics.

1900
Doctor Yoshioka Yayoi founds Japan's first medical school for women.

1901
Japan's Women's College is founded in Tokyo. Many of the women who graduate help to establish feminism in Japan.

1902
Ida M. Tarbell begins publishing The History of the Standard Oil Company in McClure's Magazine. Her exposé will contribute to the breakup of the company by a U.S. Supreme Court order in 1911.

1902
With the passage of the Midwives Act, the British Parliament requires midwives to be licensed.

1903
Mary Morton Kimball Kehew, Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, Jane Addams, and other middle-class reformers found the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) in order to help working women organize.

1904
In French law, women are no longer permanent minors.

1904
Lillian D. Wald, Florence Kelley, and other reformers establish the National Child Labor Committee to work for legislation prohibiting child labour in the United States.

1904
Helen Keller, who is deaf and blind, graduates cum laude from Radcliffe College.

1905
English socialist economist Beatrice Webb becomes a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws.

1905
Mohtaram Eskandari starts the Union of Patriotic Women, Iran's first organization for women. Religious leaders break up the first meeting and burn some of the women alive.

1906
Women in Finland win the right to vote.

1906
Russian revolutionary Mariya Spiridonova assassinates General Luzhenovsky.

1906
Anarchist Emma Goldman begins publishing Mother Earth magazine.

1907
Miina Sillanpää is elected to the Finnish Parliament.

1907
Margaret Slocum Sage donates $10 million to endow the Russell Sage Foundation to sponsor research to improve social conditions in the United States.

1908
Hannah Kent Schoff organizes the International Conference on Child Welfare in Washington, D.C.

1908
A group of women storm the British Parliament demanding suffrage. Twenty-four of them are arrested.

1908
In Muller v. State of Oregon the U.S. Supreme Court sustains a state law limiting the workday for Oregon's women workers to 10 hours.

1908
The government of Iran institutes a plan to improve women's literacy.

[Kobi]

Loretta Perfectus Walsh (April 22, 1896 – August 6, 1925) became the first American active-duty Navy woman, and the first woman allowed to serve as a woman, in any of the United States armed forces other than as a nurse, when she enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve on March 17, 1917. Walsh subsequently became the first woman Navy petty officer when she was sworn in as Chief Yeoman on March 21, 1917.

Marie Bottineau Baldwin (1863-1952) was a Chippewa attorney. Marie was the first Native American student and first woman of color to graduate from the Washington College of Law. Today the Women’s Law Association at her alma mater funds a scholarship in her name. Following law school, Marie worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and was treasurer the Society of American Indians.

Rebecca Latimer Felton (June 10, 1835 – January 24, 1930) was an American writer, lecturer, reformer, and politician who became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate. She was the most prominent woman in Georgia in the Progressive Era, and was honored by appointment to the Senate; she was sworn in on November 21, 1922, and served one day, the shortest serving Senator in U.S. history. At 87 years old, 9 months and 22 days, she was also the oldest freshman senator to enter the Senate

[The_Lady_Snow]

Gloria Anzaldua was a groundbreaking poet and cultural theorist, self-described Chicana/Tejana/lesbian/feminist/poet/writer.

[Kobi]

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.

[Kobi]

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".

[Kobi]

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.

[Kobi]

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.

[femmeInterrupted]

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/

[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.

[Kobi]

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.

[Kobi]

1975
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that women cannot be excluded from juries because of their sex.

1975
The World Congress for International Women's Year opens in Berlin.

1976
Barbara Jordan, the first African American woman elected to Congress from the Deep South, becomes the first African American and the first woman to give the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention.

1976
Labour minister Tina Anselmi becomes the first woman in the Italian cabinet.

1976
Betty Williams and Mairéad Corrigan-Maguire, founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later Community of Peace People), are awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. The joint Catholic-Protestant group is formed after three children are killed during fighting between British soldiers and the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

1977
Canadian law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex or marital status.

1977
Nigerian women are granted the right to vote.

1977
In Saudi Arabia, Princess Misha'al is accused of adultery and executed.

1977
Salvadoran women establish the Committee of Mothers of Political Prisoners and Frente Femenino (“Women's Front”).

1977
Roman women demonstrate against rape, beginning a campaign to change rape laws.

1977
The mothers of Argentine “disappeared” political prisoners begin a series of vigils.

1978
Kuwaiti women successfully demonstrate against a proposed law prohibiting women from working in offices.

1978
Mary Douglas Leakey discovers footprints of early hominids at Laetoli, Tanzania. Her find causes a revision of the date at which humans became bipedal.

1979
Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female prime minister of Great Britain.

1979
The First Congress of São Paolo Women starts the Brazilian day-care movement.

1980
New guidelines from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission prohibit sexual harassment.

1980
Three thousand women in Gdansk, Poland, defy tanks to pass out flowers and Solidarity literature.

1981
Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1982
Twenty thousand British women protest the placement of cruise and Pershing missiles at Greenham Common.

1983
Iranian women are required to wear the chador; the penalty for appearing unveiled is a prison sentence of 1 to 12 months.

1985
Chilean women demonstrate in Santiago against the repression of General Augusto Pinochet.

1986
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action on the basis of race or gender.

1988
Benazir Bhutto becomes prime minister of Pakistan. She is the first woman leader of a Muslim country in modern history.

1989
American Barbara Clementine Harris becomes the first female Episcopal bishop.

1989
Canadian women gain access to all combat posts in the military (except submarine duty) because of a lawsuit filed in 1981.

1990
A group of Saudi Arabian women drive cars in Riyadh to protest laws preventing them from operating motor vehicles. They are briefly imprisoned and suspended from their jobs.

1990
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro is elected president of Nicaragua. She is Central America's first female president.

1991
The Nobel Prize for Peace is awarded to Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

1992
The Irish vote to allow free access to abortion information and affirm a woman's right to go abroad to obtain an abortion.

1993
Janet Reno becomes the first female U.S. attorney general.

1993
Tansu Ciller becomes Turkey's first female prime minister.

1993
Kim Campbell becomes Canada's first female prime minister.

1994
Takahashi Hisako becomes the first woman justice on Japan's Supreme Court.

1995
The United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women meets in Beijing.

1996
In Afghanistan the ruling Taliban government places strict restrictions on women, forbidding them from receiving an education and working outside the home.

1996
A report on female genital mutilation urges international action to end the ancient rite of passage that has already been performed on roughly 100 million girls worldwide.

1998
Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, is unanimously elected to lead India's Congress Party.

1999
Mireya Moscoso becomes Panama's first female president and in December oversees the U.S. handover of the Panama Canal.

2000
Beverley McLachlin becomes Canada's first female chief justice of the Supreme Court. Some 70 years earlier the same court had ruled that women were not “persons.”

2000
Tarja Halonen becomes Finland's first woman president.

2000
At the Sydney Olympics, American athlete Marion Jones becomes the first woman to win five medals in track-and-field events at a single Games. She is stripped of her medals in 2007 after she acknowledges her use of banned substances.

2000
Sirimavo R.D. Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, the world's first female prime minister, retires.

2001
Hillary Rodham Clinton is sworn in as a U.S. senator from New York, becoming the first former first lady to win elected office.

2001
Katharine Graham, former publisher of The Washington Post, dies. She was the first woman to head a Fortune 500 company and at one time was considered the most powerful woman in the United States.

2001
Voters in Bahrain approve a referendum that includes the right of women to stand for office.

2002
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Golden Jubilee, marking 50 years on the throne.

2003
A Nigerian appeals court overturns a sentence of death by stoning in the adultery case of Amina Lawal.

2004
Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai is awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, becoming the first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize.

2005
In Ireland the McCartney sisters make a public issue of their brother's murder, spurring international criticism of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

2005
Kuwaiti women are granted the right to vote (effective 2007).

2006
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is inaugurated as Liberia's first woman president.

2007
California congresswoman Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman to serve as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

2007
Pratibha Patil becomes the first woman president of India.

2007
Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated shortly after her return to Pakistan following eight years of self-imposed exile.

2007
For the first time in UN peacekeeping history, an all-female unit is deployed. Comprising more than 100 Indian policewomen, the force is sent to Liberia to train police and assist with local elections and prison security.

2008
Gen. Ann Dunwoody becomes the first woman to serve as a four-star general in the United States.

2009
Michelle Obama becomes the first African American first lady when her husband, Barack Obama, is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States.

2009
Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; she is the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the court.

2009
A U.S. government panel announces that women who are not at an increased risk of breast cancer should begin receiving regular mammograms at age 50, rather than 40 as had been previously recommended.

2010
Elena Kagan becomes an associate justice of the Supreme Court.

2010
The University of Connecticut's women's basketball team wins 90 games in a row—the longest winning streak in college basketball history—before falling to the Stanford Cardinal.

2011
Television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey launches the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), “a multi-platform media company designed to entertain, inform, and inspire people to live their best lives.”

[Kobi]

Thank You Mary: Mary Walker, a woman who sought equality for women. She was a surgeon, and she wore pants– when it was illegal to do so. She was proud of her arrest for this; she wanted the right for women to wear pants. She won the congressional medal of Honor when she never even had the right to vote!




Many write: 1st. female Vice Presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro....this is an incorrect historical statement. Geraldine Ferraro was the 25th woman to run for U.S. Vice President. She was the 1st. woman representing the Democratic party, but the first woman that became the first United States Vice Presidential Candidate was indeed Marietta Stow in 1884.