History of women's rights in the United States

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Belle Case La Follette ( April 21, 1859 – August 18, 1931) was a lawyer and a women's suffrage activist in Wisconsin. La Follette worked with the women's peace party during World War I. At the time of her death in 1931, the New York Times called her "probably the least known yet most influential of all the American women who had to do with public affairs in this country". ...more on Wikipedia about "Belle Case LaFollette"

The Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional (National Mexican Women's Commission, abbreviated as CFMN), is a Chicano organization geared towards the political and economic empowerment of Hispanic women, particularly Chicanas, in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional"

Deborah Sampson ( December 17, 1760 – April 29, 1827) was a female soldier during the American War of Independence who fought dressed as a man. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deborah Sampson"

The Declaration of Sentiments is a document signed in 1848 by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men, delegates to the first women's rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York, now known to historians as the 1848 Women's Rights Convention. The principal author of the Declaration of Sentiments was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The Sentiments followed the form of the United States Declaration of Independence. According to the North Star, it included a list of grievances followed by the rights of women and was the most important document that would push forward the women's rights movement. At the time when traditional roles were still very much in place, the Declaration caused a lot of controversy. Many people respected the courage and abilities behind the drafting of the document, but were unwilling to abandon conventional mindsets. An article in the Oneida Whig published soon after the convention described the document as "the most shocking and unnatural event ever recorded in the history of womanity". Many newspapers insisted that the Declaration was drafted at the expense of women's more appropriate duties. ...more on Wikipedia about "Declaration of Sentiments"

Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 ( 1973), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court overturning the abortion law of Georgia. The Supreme Court's decision was released on January 22, 1973, the same day as the decision in the more famous case of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973). ...more on Wikipedia about "Doe v. Bolton"

Eisenstadt v. Baird, , was an important United States Supreme Court case that established the right of unmarried people to posess contraception on the same basis as married couples and, by implication, the right of unmarried couples to engage in procreative sexual intercourse (though not, as is sometimes argued, the right of unmarried people to engage in any type of sexual intercourse). ...more on Wikipedia about "Eisenstadt v. Baird"

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was a social activist, and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States. With her husband, Henry Stanton and cousin, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was also active in the anti-slavery Abolitionist movement. Stanton had a strong friendship with abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elizabeth Cady Stanton"

Emily Blackwell (1826–1910) was the second woman to earn a medical degree at what is now Case Western Reserve University, and the third woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Emily Blackwell"

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would guarantee equal rights under the law for Americans regardless of sex. ...more on Wikipedia about "Equal Rights Amendment"

Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 ( 1965), was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives. By a vote of 7-2, the Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the "right to marital privacy." ...more on Wikipedia about "Griswold v. Connecticut"

During the 1830s and 1840s, many of the changes in the status of women that occurred in the post-Revolutionary period – such as the belief in love between spouses and the role of women in the home – continued at an accelerated pace. This was an age of reform movements, in which Americans sought to improve the moral fiber of themselves and of their nation in unprecedented numbers. The wife's role in this process was important because she was seen as the cultivator of morality in her husband and children. Besides domesticity, women were also expected to be pious, pure, and submissive to men. These four components were considered by many at the time to be "the natural state" of womanhood, echoes of this ideology still existing today. The view that the wife should find fulfillment in these values is called the Cult of True Womanhood or the Cult of Domesticity. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of women in the United States"

The effort to obtain women's suffrage in the United States has a long and complicated history. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of women's suffrage in the United States"

Lois E. Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. was the first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit in the United States, filed in 1988 on behalf of Lois Jenson and other female workers at the EVTAC mine in Eveleth, Minnesota on the state's northern Iron Range. The case was documented in the 2002 book Class Action and a 2005 fictionalized film version, North Country. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co."

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The League of Women Voters is a United States non-partisan political organization founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt during a meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. It began as a "mighty political experiment" aimed to help newly enfranchised women exercise their responsibilities as voters. ...more on Wikipedia about "League of Women Voters"

The following is a list of signatories of the 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments. This document was the founding document of the American feminist movement. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of signatories of the Declaration of Sentiments"

This is a list of suffragists and suffragettes who were campaigners for women's suffrage. Suffragists and suffragettes were often members of different societies which had the same aim, but used differing tactics: for example, suffragettes in the British usage denotes a more ' militant' type of campaigner. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of suffragists and suffragettes"

Louisa Strittmater ( 1896- 1944) was a militant feminist who may be best known for the court case arising from the distribution of her estate. In her will, she devised her estate to the National Women's Party. However, in In Re Strittmater, 140 NJ Eq. 94 (NJ 1947), the court ruled that she suffered from "feminism to a neurotic extreme" and that this "disease" left her mentally unfit to execute a will. Thus, her will was set aside for lack of mental capacity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Louisa Strittmater"

The Lowell system or Waltham-Lowell system, named after Francis Cabot Lowell, was a paternalistic textile factory system of the early 19th century that relied almost exclusively on young, unmarried women laborers and ...more on Wikipedia about "Lowell system"

The Lucy Stone League is a women’s rights organization founded in 1921. Its motto is "My name is the symbol for my identity and must not be lost." It was the first group to fight for women to be allowed to keep their maiden name after marriage – and to use it legally. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lucy Stone League"

Lydia Moss Bradley, (Born: July 31, 1816, Vevay, Indiana, died: January 16, 1908, Peoria, Illinois). ...more on Wikipedia about "Lydia Moss Bradley"

Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage ( 1826- 1898) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression". ...more on Wikipedia about "Matilda Joslyn Gage"

The Men's League for Women's Suffrage was a society formed in 1907 by the left-wing writers Henry Brailsford, Max Eastman, Laurence Housman, Henry Nevinson and others to pursue women's suffrage. ...more on Wikipedia about "Men's League for Women's Suffrage"

Minor v. Happersett, , was a United States Supreme Court case appealed from the Supreme Court of Missouri concerning the Missouri law which ordained "Every male citizen of the United States shall be entitled to vote." ...more on Wikipedia about "Minor v. Happersett"

Muller v. Oregon, , was a landmark decision in United States Supreme Court history, as it relates to both sex discrimination and labor laws. The case upheld Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health. ...more on Wikipedia about "Muller v. Oregon"

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