"A handful of female graduate students were permitted to earn advanced degrees starting in 1962," according to "A Brief History of Women at Princeton" on the Princeton Alumni Association website. In some specific instances women were allowed to take certain classes at Ivy League institutions, the post states. Brown, Dartmouth and Columbia did not offer admission to women until 1971, 19 respectively, it states. The post states that Yale and Princeton did not accept female students until 1969, and Harvard in 1977, when it merged with the all-female Radcliffe College. wars since the American Revolution, serving as nurses or other staff, it was not until 2013 when women were allowed to serve on the front lines. 3, 2015, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter ordered that the military open all combat jobs to women with no exceptions, according to the report.Ĭonscription, which was mandatory enlistment for state services, ended in 1973 and with that women’s participation in the military increased, according to a research article titled “ Women and War: What Physicians Should Know.” 24, 2013, the Pentagon rescinded the rule that restricted women from serving in combat units, according to a Congressional Research Service report. Service academies did first admit women in 1976, according to The Women’s Memorial.
Women were admitted into military academies in 1976, but it was not until 2013 that the military ban on women in combat was lifted, according to the post. It also states that before 1973, women were only allowed in the military as nurses or support staff. The post also misstated that women could serve on juries in all 50 states in 1973, when the date was actually 1975. Utah became the first state to deem women qualified for jury duty in 1898, according to the ACLU and Cornell Law School, not 1879. Louisiana when the Court held that states must treat men and women in the same way in respect to jury service in 1975, according to an article from Humanities and Social Sciences Online. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 gave women the right to serve on federal juries, however it was not until 1973 that all 50 states passed similar legislation, according to an article from Associated Press. The post states that women were kept out of some jury pools because they were considered the center of the home and were “too fragile to hear the grisly details of crimes and too sympathetic by nature to be able to remain objective about those accused of offenses.” It says that this varied by state, as Utah found women were fit for jury duty in 1879. The enactment of the law was in response to two Supreme Court cases. It stated that women who are pregnant or have been affected by pregnancy or childbirth must be treated the same for all employment-related purposes.Īn employer cannot refuse to hire a woman because of her pregnancy as long as she is able to perform the major functions of the job, according to the EEOC.īefore that law passed, however, there were numerous Supreme Court cases that dealt with employment discrimination against pregnant women, according to an article from. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s website. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 prohibited sexual discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, according to the U.S. Women didn’t get this protection until 1978. Be guaranteed that they would not get fired for getting pregnant
Many banks required single, divorced or widowed women to bring a man with them to cosign for a credit card, according to CNN, and some discounted the wages of women by as much as 50% when calculating their credit card limits, according to an article from Smithsonian Magazine.
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