A Timeline of Women's Legal History in the United States ...

A Timeline of Women's Legal History in the United States by Professor Cunnea This webpage contains a History of significant events for women in the United States regarding their experience with the law: using it, making it, practicing it as a profession, profiting or suffering from it. It ranges from 1619 to the present, covering jury rights, voting rights, marriage rights, the right of a woman to pass on the status of free or slave to her children, the right of a woman to control her own body, the right of a woman to choose her own profession -- particularly the profession of law or lawmaker. The version placed on this site in March, 1998, is based on a Timeline specialized to show key events in the History of the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship at Georgetown University in Washington, To see the current Georgetown version, click here.

Chickasaw tradition granted married women independent property rights. 1848 Politicized by their work in the abolition movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organize the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, publishing a Declaration of Sentiments which echoes the Declaration of Independence.

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