1. Women in America

2. Events that influenced women’s lives • Civil war (1861-1865), abolition of slavery • World War I • World War II • Civil rights movement

3. Timeline of movement for women’s rights • Women’s suffrage • Women’s health • Women at work

4. Suffrage 1848 1869 1869 1890 1893 1920 First women’s rights convention NWSA (NY) AWSA(Boston) NAWSA Colorado grants suffrage to women 19 th amendment to the constitution

5. Work 1903 1963 1964 1967 1978 1986 Women’s Trade union league Equal Pay Act Title VII Civil Rights Act L. B. J. Affirmative action Discrimination against pregnant women banned Sexual harassment banned

6. Health 1916 1921 1936 1960 1973 First birth control clinic Birth control league Birth control information is not obscene Birth control pills approved Right to safe and legal abortion

7. Women’s organizations National State

8. NOW FEMINISM The Feminist Movement - also called women's liberation movement - is a social movement that seeks equal rights for women, giving them equal status with men and freedom to decide their own careers and life patterns.

9. - Now National Domestic Violence Family Violence Prevention Fund - Alabama coalition against rape - Arizona social assault network - Battered Women's Justice Project National State

10. The moral: Women Rule