The Evoloution of Women’s Place in the modern age.

The Evolution of Women’s Rights.

1519-Catherine de Medici is born; she will be the "brains behind the throne" in France for the next thirty years.
1544-Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England, she rules without a husband.

1776- Abigail Adams writes a letter asking her husband, John to "Remember the Ladies".
1791-Bill of rights is drafted, no mention is made of women.
1789-The French national assembly drafts the rights of man no mention is made of women.
1792-Mary Wollstonecraft publishes The Vindication of the Rights of Women.

1860-Women's suffrage movement begins in England.
1857-The society for the promoting and employment of women founded.
1867-General German Workers Congress passed resolution about employment of women.
1869-SPD tries to eliminate cheap female labor.
1890-The word feminist is coined to refer to women’s rights activists.
1891-German Social Democratic Party officially endorsed and supported the emancipation of women.
1892-Clara Zetkin becomes editor of Die Gleichheit.
1910-Herbert Asquith halts suffrage legislation. This ushers in a more radical turn to the feminist movement.
1917-Russian communist regime preaches total equality between men and women.
1918-Asquith is worn down and finally agrees to support a women’s suffrage bill.
1920s-New strategy in women's movement in Germany, reform not revolution.

1926-Women still cannot vote in France, Italy, Belgium or Switzerland.
1933-Women's rights movement destroyed in Germany by fascism.
1940-Women fight alongside men in the Russian army as snipers and bomber pilots.
1942-Because many men are away fighting the war, many women enter the work force.

1949-Simone de Beauvoir’s book The Second Sex is published.
1950s-The Eisenhower era ideal family is en vogue, women’s role in society becomes more domestic.
1960s-The growth of the women’s place in the work force causes the feminist movement to experience a renaissance of sorts.
1966-Indira Gahndi serves as Prime Minister of India.
1979-Margaret Thatcher begins her run as Britain's longest standing Prime Minister.
1980s-Feminism is now divided into two camps: those who believe that women and men are equal in all senses and those who believe that women and men each have their own place in society.
1990s-Women can contribute in many areas that they were not able to before but still continue to fight for the same opportunities that are available to men, economic as well as political equality.

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