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Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. That includes actual law reforms as well as other formal changes, such as reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents. The right to vote is exempted from the timeline: for that right, see Timeline of women's suffrage.
The following timeline represents formal legal changes and reforms regarding women's rights in the United States except voting rights. It includes actual law reforms as well as other formal changes, such as reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents.
The timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. The changes include actual law reforms, as well as other formal changes (e.g., reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents ).
Women have made great strides – and suffered some setbacks – throughout history, but many of their gains were made during the two eras of activism in favor of women's rights. Some notable events:
Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. That includes actual law reforms as well as other formal changes, such as reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents .
4 1920s. 5 1940s. 6 1960s. 7 1970s. 8 1980s. 9 1990s. ... The following is a timeline of the history of feminism. ... First speech in the US on women's rights by John ...
1824: "Men and Women: Brief Hypothesis Concerning the Difference in their Genius" published by John Neal [2] 1832: First speech in the US on women's rights by John Neal in Portland, Maine [3] 1872: Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States published by Susan B. Anthony.
Overall, the women's rights movement declined noticeably during the 1920s. Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment did not in actual practice provide suffrage to all women in the United States. [282] Women's rights to a public identity were restricted by the common law practice of coverture. [283]