Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: Women Working Open Collections Program Harvard University Library Women Working Women Working

Browse
Dates and Events

A brief list of critical dates and events in the history of Women Working.

1869 Massachusetts Bureau of the Statistics of Labor Established
1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony found the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1869 Lucy Stone forms the American Woman Suffrage Association
1873 Carroll Davidson Wright appointed Commissioner of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor
1873 Ladies' Home Companion published in Springfield, Ohio
1876 Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia
1877 Women's Educational and Industrial Union established
1883 Ladies' Home Journal Founded as a supplement to Tribune and Farmer
1884 Federal Bureau of Labor Established
1885 Carroll Davidson Wright appointed United States Commissioner of Labor
1890 National Woman's Suffrage Association Founded
1892 General Federation of Women's Clubs Founded
1893 World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago
1895 Woman's Home Companion published (formerly Ladies' Home Companion)
1900 International Ladies Garment Workers Union Formed
1903 National Women's Trade Union League of America Founded
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis World's Fair)
1908 Muller v. Oregon Supreme Court Decision
1909-1910 Uprising of the 20,000, New York Shirtwaist workers strike
1910-1911 Chicago Garment Workers' Strike
1911 Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire
1911 Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations Founded
1912 Lawrence Strike
1912 Preliminary Report of the New York Factory Investigating Commission
1913 United States Department of Labor Established
1919 Bureau of Vocational Information and Vocational Adjustment Bureau
1920 19th Amendment Ratified
1920 Woman's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor established (Organized in 1918 as a war agency)