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Timeline of Women's Rights Movement
March is Women's History Month. Before the 1970s, the topic of women's history was largely missing from general public consciousness. To address this situation, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women initiated a "Women's History Week" celebration in 1978 and chose the week of March 8th to coincide with International Women's Day.
The celebration generated positive response, and schools began to host their own Women's History Week programs. The next year, leaders from the California group shared their project at a Women's History Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Other participants not only became determined to begin their own local Women's History Week projects but also agreed to support an effort to have Congress declare a national Women's History Week.
In 1981, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) cosponsored the first Joint Congressional Resolution proclaiming a "Women's History Week." In 1987, the National Women's History Project petitioned Congress to expand the celebration to the entire month of March. Since then, the National Women's History Month Resolution has been approved every year with bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.
Learning Activity
Assign students to create a timeline of major events in the Women's Rights Movement. The timeline will utilize the five eras listed below in the Pathfinder. Student may choose between a written report of at least 150 words, or a PowerPoint presentation of at least seven slides.
The timeline should include a picture(s) of the women leader(s) of that era, a summary that includes changes in the role of women, and major reforms or legislation enacted that affected the rights of women.
Pathfinders
Click the Topics tab > Click the era > Select a topic listed below...
- Progressive Era (c. 1880 - 1900) > Women and Progressivism
- The Roaring '20s (c. 1920 - 1929) > Societal Issues
- World War II (c. 1939 - 1945) > Women and Minorities in World War II
- The Seventies (c. 1970 - 1979) > Feminism
- The Clinton Years (c. 1993 - 2001) > Growth of Women's Sports
Use our custom ProQuest models for written and PowerPoint-style reports.
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