Timeline: The Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. A timeline of women's rights from 1769 to the fall of Roe v. Wade By Susan Milligan Senior Politics Writer March 10, 2023, at 3:53 p.m.

On January 21, 2017, the Women’s March on Washington, DC, drew a record-breaking public display of support for women’s rights and civil rights in a mass demonstration, estimated to be the ...

Here’s a look back at the history of the women’s liberation movement, which started as a modest meeting for voting rights and has since trekked toward equality in all areas of society.

Liberia's president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and compatriot Leymah Gbowee, who mobilised fellow women against the country's civil war, including by organising a sex strike, share the prize.

Women's suffrage activist Susan B. Anthony was famously arrested along with 15 other women, and prosecuted for attempting to vote in the presidential election of 1872 in Rochester, New York.

Some 68 women and 32 men signed a “Declaration of Sentiments,” making the first formal demand in the U.S. for women’s right to vote. This convention did not address the racism and oppression ...

1868 July 9: The 14th Amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S., including former slaves. But the amendment limits voting rights to male citizens.

But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...

At the feet of this Rosa Parks statue in Montgomery, Ala., are the names of lesser-known women from the Civil Rights Movement. The new opera “She Who Dared” tells their stories.

The Islamic Republic’s atrocities have gotten global attention and led to Iran being kicked off the UN commission on women — a win for Iranian-born British actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi.