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| 1848 FIRST WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION (New York, USA) | The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention in the United States. Held in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, the meeting launched the women's suffrage movement, which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to vote. |
| 1869 SUFFRAGETTE MOVEMENT | National Woman Suffrage Association is founded with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president. American Woman Suffrage Association is founded with Henry Ward Beecher as president. Wyoming Territory grants suffrage to women. |
| 1893 NEW ZEALAND APPROVES WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE | A new Electoral Act was enacted on 19 September 1893. New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world where all women were entitled to vote in parliamentary elections. |
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1903
MARIE CURIE WINS THE NOBEL PRIZE
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She is the first woman to be recognised for this award in the physics category. She was awarded the prize along with her husband, Pierre, and Henri Becquerel, for the discovery of radioactivity. In 1911, she was again awarded the Nobel Prize, this time for chemistry. |
| 1920S USA: WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE | The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle—victory took decades of agitation and protest. |
| 1945 LAUNDRY STRIKE (Ireland) | The strike lasted for over 13 weeks and involved around 1,500 workers, affecting 14 laundries in Dublin. At the time, commercial laundries were big business, with much of the laundry work done by women. The strikers’ victory resulted in the right to a fortnight’s holiday being eventually extended to all workers. |
| 1960 THE UNFORGETTABLE BUTTERFLIES (Dominican Republic) | A symbol of popular feminist resistance, the Mirabal sisters also known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies) form an opposition movement to openly protest the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. On 25 November 1960, the sisters are assassinated. The public outcry propels the anti-Trujillo movement, toppling the dictatorship within a year. |
| 1960 FIRST FEMALE PRIME MINISTER IN THE WORLD, SIRIMAVO BANDARANAIKE | She was the world's first female prime minister, when she became Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (then the Dominion of Ceylon) in 1960. She served three terms: 1960–1965, 1970–1977 and 1994–2000. |
| 1968 UN DEBATE ON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | In 1968, UN member states gathered in Teheran at the International Conference on Human Rights and adopted a resolution marking the first moment in which population control was explicitly linked to the advancement of human rights. |
| 1973 THE ROE v. WADE CASE (Texas, USA) | The Supreme Court ruled that the government lacked the power to ban abortions. The court's ruling was based on the decision that a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy was subject to freedom of personal choice in family matters. |
| 2012 UN BANS FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION | The practice of subjecting girls as young as 15 to genital mutilation is prohibited. It has been common in countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, affecting 200 million girls and women |
| 2014 MALALA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE | Pakistani activist and blogger who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17. She is the youngest person to win a Nobel Prize in history. Her work for civil rights - especially women's right to education - has made her known for her columns about her life under Taliban occupation. |
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2017
THE #METOO MOVEMENT
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The movement began as a hashtag on social media to denounce sexual assault and harassment following the sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein. The phrase jumped from the social media to activism to demand an end to the abusive situations to which thousands of women are subjected on a daily basis. |
| 2018 ICELAND BECOMES FIRST COUNTRY TO LEGALISE EQUAL PAY | In 2018, Iceland introduced the first policy in the world that requires companies and institutions with more than 25 employees to prove that they pay men and women equally for a job of equal value. |
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