Women's Timeline
Women's Movement Timeline
The following paragraphs describe eight incredible women who lived from the 1700's through the present. This paper also includes a timeline to better place into perspective these women's incredible effort and their success at initiating change and giving women first, a voice, then, rights equal to those of men.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
In 1792, Wollstonecraft published the most important piece relating to women's rights, a pamphlet entitled Vindication on the Rights of Women. This work advocated equality of the sexes, and elaborated upon what was later to become the central idea of the Women's Movement across Europe and America. According to scholars, Wollstonecraft "ridiculed prevailing notions about women as helpless, charming adornments in the household" and instead suggested the women should be educated and not be slavish dependents of their husbands. In fact, Wollstonecraft was one of the first women to advocate women's education above everything as a means and a path towards establishing a balanced society.
Source: "Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797." Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797. Web. 29 May 2012. .
2. Martha Moore Ballard (1735-1812)
Martha Ballard, the first American to be written about here, lived predominantly in the 18th century in what is now the state of Maine. Ballard's most important contribution to the life of women and the generations that would follow and that would start the women's movement, was her diary, through which she described and categorized daily events not only in her life, but also in the field of medicine. As Ballard was a midwife, she knew this field well, and it is due...
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