1. Schooling
1.1. Only men were allowed higher education schooling in colleges and universities.
1.2. Women and men started to slowly be able to be educated together.
1.2.1. Oberlin College was the first to allow coeducation.
1.3. Women Started to be able to found colleges of their own in the late 19th century.
1.3.1. An example is Girton College of Cambride, which was an all women's college.
1.4. Even though opportunity is not all the same yet, there are many more coeducational college these days and women can go to school freely.
2. Minorities
2.1. African American Women
2.1.1. African American women were still fighting for the right to vote into the 1920s.
2.1.1.1. They did not feel like full citizens without the right to vote.
2.2. Asian Women
2.2.1. In 1952, Asian immigrant women were eligible to become citizens, making them be able to vote who were.
2.3. Latinx Women
2.3.1. Literate Latina women were given the right in 1929, and all Puerto Rican women could vote in 1935.
2.4. Native Americans
2.4.1. In 1920, Native Americans did not even have citizenship, making it no chance for them to vote.
2.4.1.1. Did not get the right until 1962.
3. Voting Rights Act of 1965
3.1. The voting rights act mainly affected women of color.
3.1.1. White women already had their right.
3.2. The amount of African American women who vote has went up a very large amount.
4. Opportunities for Women
4.1. Sports
4.1.1. Women had to have sports teams made up by themselves.
4.1.2. Women in the upper class were able to participate in sports like golf and tennis.
4.1.3. By 1900, women were allowed to compete in the Olympics.
4.1.4. Even though it is not completely equal yet, women are now able to participate in previously men's only sports.
4.2. Jobs
4.2.1. The most jobs available in the early 1900s were domestic and in factories.
4.2.1.1. These women began forming labor unions as well.
4.2.2. Even though there were some before, women began to want to have higher jobs, like in law.
4.2.3. Now, women can go into many more fields, but there is still less opportunities for women in certain jobs.
4.2.3.1. An example of this would be in engineering.
4.3. Pay
4.3.1. Throughout history, women did not have equal pay.
4.3.1.1. There were many strikes, but some unsuccessful.
4.3.1.2. By 1911 in New York, male and female teachers began to have equal pay.
4.3.2. By 1911 in New York, male and female teachers began to have equal pay.
4.3.3. During the war, when women did men's jobs, they had their pay. But when things went back to normal, it went back down.
4.3.4. Completely equal pay is still not there, and we have a long way to go.