Family Education Network
February 2001April 2001
     

Which western state first adopted an amendment granting women the right to vote?


Who founded Planned Parenthood?
         

When did Congress pass the Equal Pay Act, making it illegal for employers to pay a woman less than what a man would receive for the same job?


In 1971, what magazine sold 300,000 copies in just eight days?

What was the goal of the National Woman Suffrage Association?

Title IX banned what in schools?
What is the goal of EMILY's List?
         

Who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC?

How many women won a Nobel Prize for Literature in the 1990s?

In what year did the first U.S. female presidential candidate, Victoria Woodhull, run for the executive office?

On what document did Elizabeth Cady Stanton base her Declaration of Sentiments?

Who said, "One is not born a woman, one becomes one"?
         

In what year did women get the vote in the United States?

Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

In 1998, America's working women earned how much for every dollar that men earned?
Who was the first female winner of the Iditarod dogsled race?

What group of Native Americans have a matrilineal society?
         

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences?

What book galvanized the modern U.S. women's rights movement?

Who was the first woman awarded a medical degree?

What was the impact of Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order 11375?

What does the Equal Rights Amendment say?
         
 
Courtesy National Archives, photo no. 179-WP-1563


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