1. DISCRIMINATION OF WOMEN IN THE USA

2. THE DEFINITION Gender discrimination is discrimination against a person or group on the grounds of sex or gender identity.

3. Women’s discrimination is divided into following groups: Private life Work Education and politics

4. PRIVATE LIFE 1848 First women’s rights convention 1916 First birth control clinic 1973 Right to safe and legal abortion

5. WORK, FAIR WAGES OR EQUAL PAY 1903 Women’s Trade Union League 1963 Equal Pay Act 1967 Civil Rights Act 1968 Discrimination against pregnant women banned

6. GLASS CEILING The United Nations had concluded that women often experience a "glass ceiling" and that there are no societies in which women enjoy the same opportunities as men. The term "glass ceiling" describes the process by which women are barred from promotion by means of an invisible barrier.

7. EDUCATION AND POLITICS 1920 19 Amendment Act (the right to vote) 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female justice 1880 The Women's Educational Equity Act (WEAA) 1997 Madeleine Albright becomes the first female United States Secretary of State 2005 Condoleezza Rice becomes the first female African American Secretary of State

8. SERVING IN THE MILITARY FORCES June 12, 1948 Women’s Armed Services Integration Act,United States law

9. Women’s federal and state organizations National American Woman Suffrage Association League of Women Voters NYC Women's right's organisation (state)

10. Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements, theories and moral philosophies concerned with gender inequalities and equal rights for women.