Timeline of Womens Rights (other than voting)

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This page is meant to give a simple survey of the development of gender equality; it does not concentrate merely on the right to vote (For that, go to Timeline of women's suffrage).


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[edit] Before the 19th century

  • 1776 Female tailors are allowed in to the guild of tailors in France.
  • 1778 In Sweden, unmarried women are allowed to give birth in another town and to have the birth registered anonymously, to not answer any questions about the birth and, if they choose to keep their child, to have their unmarried status not mentioned in official documents to avoid social embarrassment.
  • 1788 United States of America (to stand for election)
  • 1789 France is the first country in Europe where it is suggested that women are to be in the Assembly of the Estates, there are several demands to include women in the reforms of the right to vote.
  • 1792 The reformed laws of marriage and divorce greatly favours women's equal rights in France, but all of these laws are abolished by Napoleon Bonaparte's Code Napoleon in 1804.
  • 1792 Local women-units of the defense army are founded in several cities of France; although the military was never officially open to women, about eight thousand women were estimated to have served openly in the French armé in local troops (but not in the battle fields) between 1792 and 1794, but women were officially barred from the armé in 1795.
  • 1793 The question of women's right to vote is discussed in the French parliament; women's right to vote is acknowledged as a principle, but it is still put aside with the view that the time is not right to make this a reality and therefore got postponed.

[edit] 19th century

  • 1810 Unmarried women in Sweden are allowed to be declared of legal majority by special dispensation from the king.
  • 1821 The first Women's university is founded in the USA.
  • 1833 The first co-educational university open to both sexes is founded in Ohio in the United States.
  • 1839 Married women are allowed separate economy from their husbands in the state of Mississippi in USA.
  • 1841 The first girl school in Bulgaria.
  • 1842 In Sweden, both boys and girls are now by law expected to attend school.
  • 1845 Equal inheritance for sons and daughters, (in the absence of a will) in Sweden.
  • 1846 Professions within the trades are opened on the same terms as men for all unmarried women in Sweden.
  • 1848 Separate economy and independence allowed for women in the state of New York in the United States.
  • 1850 Legal majority for (unmarried) women in Iceland.
  • 1851 Women who fulfill the demands of personal economic wealth are granted citizenship in Guatemala.
  • 1853 Women formally allowed to teach at universities in Sweden.
  • 1854 Equal inheritance rights in Norway. Married women granted separate economy and legal majority in the state of Massachusetts in USA.
  • 1857 Women (if unmarried) are declared to be of legal majority in Denmark; no longer minors in law. Divorce is, in reality, allowed in Great Britain.
  • 1858 Legal majority for women in Sweden.
  • 1859 Several professions of lower officials are opened to women in Sweden.

Married women granted the right to own property in Canada.

  • 1861 The profession of dentist is open to women in Sweden; Rosalie Fougelberg becomes the first female dentist and the dentist of the queen in 1867.
  • 1863 Unmarried women in Norway granted legal majority; at the same age as men in 1869.
  • 1864 Legal majority for women in Finland. Unmarried female workers are given the same rights as men within the industry in Sweden. Husbands are forbidden to abuse their wives in Sweden.
  • 1865 Legal majority for unmarried women in Italy is granted by the new constitution. Women are allowed to study in Switzerland.
  • 1867 Women allowed to study in Russia (at the same terms as men in 1905) and in Finland (at the same terms as men in 1901).
  • 1868 The United States formally allows women to study, although several universities had already been open to women earlier.
  • 1870 Legal majority for unmarried women in Great Britain; this law is improved in 1874, 1882, and in 1893. Women are allowed to study in Sweden.
  • 1872 Arranged marriages are forbidden in Sweden. Canada: Women with dependant children who have no husband may have homestead land in accordance with the Public Lands of the Dominion Statute.
  • 1874 The first woman in The Netherlands, Aletta Jacobs is allowed to study medicine. The universities of Italy open to women. Married women are granted economical equality and legal majority in Sweden. The profession of school- teacher is opened to both sexes in Japan.
  • 1875 Women allowed in the universities of Denmark.
  • 1876 Women formally allowed to study in Great Britain.
  • 1877 Women are allowed to study in Chile.
  • 1878 Equality in inheritance in Finland.
  • 1880 Women are allowed to study in France and in the universities in Belgium, and in Australia and Canada.
  • 1882 Married women of Great Britain are granted separate economy and legal majority. Women are granted legal majority in the USA as a whole.
  • 1883 Coeducation at the universities of Romania.
  • 1884 Universities open to women in Norway, and legal majority is granted to unmarried women in Germany and Mexico. Ontario: married women are given control over their own property.
  • 1885 Divorce is again allowed in France (after having been abolished since 1814).
  • 1886 The first women attend university in Mexico.
  • 1888 In Spain, women are allowed to study with a written approval from a male guardian. Legal majority for married women in Norway.
  • 1889 Swedish women electable to social boards in schools and poor-care.
  • 1895 Separate economy allowed for married women in the state of South Carolina in the United States. Women allowed to work as barristers in Upper Canada.
  • 1896 The universities of the double monarchy Austria-Hungary (and thereby also the future Czech Republic and Slovakia) are open to women. The profession of lawyer are opened to both sexes in USA as a whole - but the first female lawyer in an American state was recorded already in 1869.
  • 1898 The first female students accepted in Haiti.
  • 1899 Legal majority for married women in Denmark.

[edit] 20th century

  • 1900 Legal majority for women in Belgium and married women in Iceland. Girls schools are founded in Egypt and Tunisia and a women's university in Japan. The profession of lawyer are opened to both sexes in France.
  • 1902 Foot binding is abolished in China, after having handicapped women's feet since ca 1010.
  • 1904 Legal majority for women in France. Divorce is legalized in Mexico.
  • 1906 Finland (to stand for election).
  • 1907 The first coeducational university opens in Japan. Norway (to stand for election). Finland (first female Members of Parliament).
  • 1908 Married women in France granted legal majority and economical equality, and the women of all of Germany are allowed to study.
  • 1917 Netherlands (to stand for election)
  • 1919 Married women in Italy granted legal majority.
  • 1920 The first female students are accepted in the university of Beijing in China. Canada (to stand for election, with some restrictions/conditions). Women are also given the right to vote in the United States
  • 1921 Belgium (to stand for election). Full equal rights for married women in Sweden.
  • 1926 Women of Turkey are granted legal majority, are admitted to the universities, and the harems and the veil are abolished.
  • 1927 Legal majority for married women in Mexico.
  • 1931-36 Women in Iran are allowed to study and the veil is abolished.
  • 1934 Turkey (to stand for election)
  • 1937 Puerto Rico (to stand for election). Contraception are allowed in Sweden.
  • 1938 Birth-control allowed in Sweden.
  • 1939 It becomes forbidden to fire a woman for marrying or having children in Sweden.
  • 1945 'British Guiana'-Guyana (to stand for election)
  • 1946 'Burma'-Myanmar (to stand for election)
  • 1953 Mexico (to stand for election)
  • 1958 Women allowed to become priests in Sweden.
  • 1960 Canada (to stand for election, with no restrictions/conditions)
  • 1961 El Salvador (to stand for election)
  • 1963 Papua New Guinea (to stand for election)
  • 1970 Democratic Republic of the Congo (to stand for election)
  • 1973 Andorra, San Marino (to stand for election)
  • 1975 The right to abortion are secured in Sweden.
  • 1978 'Rhodesia'-Zimbabwe (to stand for election)
  • 1986 Djibouti (to stand for election)

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