The American women's almanac : 500 years of making history
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Acknowledgments -- Photo sources -- Timeline -- Introduction -- The arrival of women in America: The arrival of women in America; Women and the first European settlements; Colonial women in America; The arrival of women in New England; Courtship, marriage, and motherhood in the colonies -- The struggle for equality: the first women's rights movement: The abolitionist movement and equal rights for women; The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848; Seneca Falls to the Suffrage Movement; The final battle for suffrage; The Suffrage Parade of 1913; American Women win the right to vote; Biographies -- Women at work: Women at work; The mill girls; The first women's labor movement; Early twentieth-century women's labor movement; Garment workers and the Great Uprising; The Triangle Shirtwaist fire; The protocol of peace; Women at work in wartime; "We can do it!": World War II; The President's Commission on the Status of Women; Biographies -- The second women's rights movement: The second women's rights movement; Literature and liberation; National Organization for Women; The Miss America protests; The Equal Rights Amendment; The legalization of abortion; Postfeminism; Biographies -- Literature: Literature; Biographies -- Art and applied arts: Art and applied arts; Biographies -- Media and the performing arts: Music, dance and theater; Film; Television; Biographies -- Sports: Sports; Biographies -- Science, medicine, and technology: Science, medicine, and technology; Biographies --

Politics, government, and the law: Politics, government, and the law; Biographies

Religion: Religion; Biographies

Activists for social change: Activists for social change; The temperance movement; The settlement movement; The Woman's Peace Party; The birth control movement; Biographies

Education: Education; Biographies

Business leaders and entrepreneurs: Business leaders and entrepreneurs; Biographies

The military: The military; Biographies

Explorers: Explorers; Biographies

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