¶ … WOMEN'S MODERN HISTORY
Women's Issues
Critical Moments in Women's Modern History
Critical Moments in Women's Modern History
In the United States of America, for the first time in its short history, there is a convention held in Seneca Falls, NY for women's rights.
In Brooklyn, NY, Margaret Sanger opens the first clinic to offer birth control in the United States. The clinic was shut down and she was arrested ten days later.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act formally makes illegal discrimination with respect to employment on the basis of race and sex. Title VII simultaneously establishes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Women have held the position of Secretary of State to the President of the United States.
The convention for women's rights is included on the timeline because this is the first time in the prominent country of the U.S.A. that women have formally gathered under the transparent...
A few of the documents composed at signed by women and men at this convention served as a notice to the culture and to the world, as well as served as springboards for further organized activity toward the promotion of equality for women in society.
The first birth control clinic in Brooklyn is significant as well. This clinic appears approximately thirty years after the first event. Regardless that the place was shut down and the proprietor arrested, the events served as good public relations for women and women's issues. Sangers continued to be an activist for women's rights, specifically women's reproductive rights, and the incident at her clinic helped serve as precedent for future legislation regarding birth control and women.
The event in 1964 was chosen for a few reasons. One reason is that now, terms such as Title VII (and Title IX), as well as the EEOC are fairly common…
