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1972
Ms. Magazine was first published as a sample for New York Magazine but sold 300,000 copies in 8 days becoming the major voice of females. -
1972
Equal Rights Amendment passes congress but ends up failing. -
1973
Established a women’s right to safe and legal abortion and over rides anti-abortion in many states -
1976
The first marital rape law enacted in Nebraska. Making it illegal for a husband to rape his wife -
1981
President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first women to serve on the United States Supreme court -
1994
The Violence Against Women Act tightens federal penalities for sex offenders, funds services for victims of rape and domestic violence, provides special training of police officers. -
1995
Lt. Col. Eileen Collins becomes the first american women to pilot a space shuttle -
2000
Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the only first lady ever elected to the U.S Senate -
2005
Condoleezza Rice becomes the first African American women appointed secretary of state -
2007
Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman speaker of the U.S House of Representatives.