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The table below shows a breakdown by sector of jobs held by women in 1940 and 1950. Women overwhelmingly worked in jobs segmented by sex. Women were still highly employed as textile workers and domestic servants, but the clerical and service field greatly expanded. This tertiary sector was more socially acceptable, and many more educated women ...
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852
Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
1950s in women's sport (27 C) W. Women in war 1945–1999 (5 C, 132 P) Pages in category "1950s in women's history" This category contains only the following page.
African American women involved played roles in both leadership and supporting roles during the movement. Women including Rosa Parks, who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Diane Nash, the main organizer of the Nashville sit-ins , and Kathleen Cleaver, the first woman on the committee of the Black Panther Party .
The women's basketball team called the "Sugar Smacks," the first women's team to gain varsity status at West Point, finishes its initial varsity year with an 18–5 record. [16] The U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) assigns the first woman aircrew member to alert duty. [1] Under Owens v.
And I think that, increasingly, you know, all of us understand that, you know, this is not the 1950s anymore." Related: Kamala Harris' Stepdaughter Ella Emhoff Calls Out J.D. Vance's 'Childless ...