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) |