How Well Do You Know Your
(Women’s) Rights?
DO NOT USE YOUR PHONE…That’s cheating. Match the Right to the Year it occurred.
1. Birth control is (finally) legal for single women
2. White women get the right to vote
3. The Violence Against Women Act gives legal protection to women against rape and domestic abuse
4. Black women get the right to vote
5. The Supreme Court overturns Roe leaving abortion care up to individual states
6. Roe is passed, legalizing abortion
7. Married couples are given the right to contraception
8. Women are no longer excluded from juries
9. Women can own their own businesses (without men co-signing their loans)
10. Women get equal pay in the workplace (Ahem)
11. No fault divorce is legal in California (Other states soon follow)
12. (Single) women can get credit cards in their own names. They can also mortgage without a man co-signing
13. It becomes illegal for employers to discriminate against pregnant women
14. Interracial marriage is legalized
A. 1920
B. 1963
C. 1965
D. 1965
E. 1967
F. 1969
G. 1972
H. 1973
I. 1974
J. 1975
K. 1978
L.1988
M. 1994
N. 2022
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ANSWERS: A-2; B-10; C-4 or 7; D-4 or 7; E-14; F-11; G-1; H-6; I 12; J-8; K-13; L-9; M-3; N-5