Partie 1: timelines of US laws that have advanced gender equality
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Updated: 30 Mar 2022
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The first sexually integrated jury hears cases in Albany, New York.American colonies based their laws on the English common law, which was summarized in the Blackstone Commentaries.All states pass laws which take away women’s right to vote.United States Constitution ratifiedThe first state (Mississippi) grants women the right to hold property in their own name, with their husbands’ permissionAt Seneca Falls, New York, 300 women and men sign the Declaration of Sentiments, a plea for the end of discrimination against women in all spheres of society.In Missouri v. Celia, a Slave, a Black woman is declared to be property without a right to defend herself against a master’s act of rapeThe 14th Amendment was passed by Congress.The first woman suffrage law in the U.S. was passed in the territory of WyomingThe 15th Amendment received final ratification.The U.S. Supreme Court rules that a state has the right to exclude a married woman (Myra Colby Bradwell) from practicing law.The U.S. Supreme Court declares that despite the privileges and immunities clause, a state can prohibit a woman from voting. The court declares women as “persons,” but holds that they constitute a “special category of _nonvoting_ citizens.”Through special Congressional legislation, Belva Lockwood becomes first woman admitted to try a case before the Supreme Court.The first state (Wyoming) grants women the right to vote in all elections.Every state passed legislation modeled after New York’s Married Women’s Property Act (1848), granting married women some control over their property and earnings.Muller v State of Oregon, 208 U.S. 412 (1908): The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Oregon’s 10-hour workday for women.Margaret Sanger tests the validity of New York’s anti-contraception law by establishing a clinic in Brooklyn.The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified. It declares: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
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