Women's History Month – March

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March 1
Which western state first adopted an amendment granting women the right to vote?

March 2
Who founded Planned Parenthood?

March 5
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?

March 6
In 1971, what magazine sold 300,000 copies in just eight days?

March 7
What was the goal of the National Woman Suffrage Association?

March 8
Title IX banned what in schools?

March 9
What is the goal of EMILY's List?

March 12
Who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC?

March 13
How many women won a Nobel Prize for Literature in the 1990s?

March 14
In what year did the first U.S. female presidential candidate, Victoria Woodhull, run for the executive office?

March 15
On what document did Elizabeth Cady Stanton base her Declaration of Sentiments?

March 16
Who said, "One is not born a woman, one becomes one"?

March 19
In what year did women get the vote in the United States?

March 20
Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

March 21
In 1998, America's working women earned how much for every dollar that men earned?

March 22
Who was the first female winner of the Iditarod dogsled race?

March 23
What group of Native Americans have a matrilineal society?

March 26
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences?

March 27
What book galvanized the modern U.S. women's rights movement?

March 28
Who was the first woman awarded a medical degree?

March 29
What was the impact of Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order 11375?

March 30
What does the Equal Rights Amendment say?

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