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  1. Feb 26, 2019 · Women’s History Milestones: Timeline. From a plea to a founding father, to the suffragists to Title IX, to the first female political figures, women have blazed a steady trail towards...

  2. Feb 26, 2015 · 1820 to 1880. Evidence from a variety of printed sources published during this period--advice manuals, poetry and literature, sermons, medical texts--reveals that Americans, in general, held highly stereotypical notions about women's and men's roles in society. Historians would later term this phenomenon "The Cult of Domesticity." 1821.

  3. Jan 20, 2017 · Wade. By Susan Milligan Senior Politics Writer March 10, 2023, at 3:53 p.m. Library of Congress | AP. Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century,...

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  5. White middle-class first wave feminists in the 19th century to early 20th century, such as suffragist leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, primarily focused on women’s suffrage (the right to vote), striking down coverture laws, and gaining access to education and employment.

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  6. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, women and women's organizations not only worked to gain the right to vote, they also worked for broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms. Between 1880 and 1910, the number of women employed in the United States increased from 2.6 million to 7.8 million.

  7. Oct 29, 2009 · The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally...

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