Women Take Aim

1848 – The worlds first women’s right convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19 and 20.

1848 – The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions is debated and signed by 68 women and 32 men.

1849 – Elizabeth Smith Miller appears on the streets of Seneca Falls, New York wearing " turkish trousers," later to be known as " bloomers."

1849 – Amelia Jenks Bloomer publishes and edits the first prominent women’s rights newspaper, The Lily.

1853 – Antoinette Brown is the first U.S. woman ordained as a minister in a Protestant denomination.

1855 – Lucy Stone becomes the first women to keep her own name after marriage.

1855 – The University of Iowa becomes the first state school to admit women.

1866 – The American Equal Rights Association is founded, the first organization in the U.S. to advocate national women’s suffrage.

1868 – Sorosis is founded, the first professional club for women.

1868 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony began publishing The Revolution, an important women’s periodical.

1869 - December 10 the first women suffrage law in the U.S. passed in the territory of Wyoming.

1869 – Anthony and Stanton withdraw from the Equal Rights Association because of a dispute over the 15^th amendment.

1872 – Congress passes a law to give women federal employees pay for equal work.

1875 – Sophia Smith is the first women to found and endow a women’s college.

1877 – Helen Magil the first women to receive a Ph.D. at a U. S. school.

1878 – The Susan B. Anthony Amendment (to grant women the right to vote) is introduced to congress.

1879 – Belva Lockwood is the first women lawyer admitted to practice before the Supreme Court.

1884 – Belva Lockwood is the first woman to receive votes in a presidential election.

1887 – For the first time in this century the U.S. Senate votes on women’s suffrage it loses 34 to 16.

1893 – Colorado becomes the first state to adopt a state amendment enfranchising women.

1895 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton publishes the first volume of The Women’s Bible, she publishes the second volume in 1898.