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19th Amendment

18th August 1920 - gave women the vote on the same guidelines as men

League of Womens Voters and the Womens Bereau of Labour set up?

1920

Works Progress Administration

1935 - hired single women, widows, women with disabled husbands. Part of the New Deal

Selective Training and Service Act

1940 - trained men into the military and women to fill places in factories

Lanham Act

1941 - provided day care

Federally funded day care shut down

1946

Kennedy sets up Commision of Enquiry on the status of women

1961

Equal Pay Act

1963

'The Feminine Mystique'

Betty Friedan, written in 1963

Campaigned against abortion and campaigned to stop passing of the Equal Rights Act

Phyllis Schlafly

Einstadt v Baird

1972 - allowed unmarried women access to contraception

Roe v Wade

1973 - federally legalized abortion