GENDER STUDIES

GENDER AND LAW
 

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  Legal Landmarks  

 Timelines/Historical Documents/Landmark Legislation

• One Hundred Years Towards Suffrage: An Overview

• The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference, 1848

• Married Women's Property Act, New York State, 1848

• Victoria Woodhull, Memorial to Congress on Woman Suffrage, 1871

• Equal Rights Amendment, 1923     Equal Pay Act, 1963

• National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose, 1966

• Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972

• Violence Against Women Act of 1994

• Defense of Marriage Act, 1996

• Chapter XIV Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Guidelines on Discrimination Because of Sex (revised 1997)

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