1700’s-1800’s: Women write books and treatises that gain them attention, books on how women should act in public and what role she plays in marriage, etc.
1789: French declaration of the rights of men and the women’s march on Versialles
1791: Olympe De Gouges writes declaration of the rights of women
1800’s: Industrial revolution, controversy on women’s right to work, prostitution becomes more widespread
1840’s: Colleges for women established in the UK
1848: Seneca falls convention
1876: Telephone invention brings white collar jobs for women
1882: First birth control clinic
1887: Married women’s property act
1897: National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies formed
1903: Women’s Social and Political Union formed and Women’s Trade Union League formed
1919: End of WWI leads to loss of many jobs for women
1920: Suffrage in the USA through 19th amendment
1928: Suffrage in the UK
1944: Suffrage in France
1966: National Organization for Women established to give all women equal rights
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