CEDAW adopted by the UN
1979 · Event
The international bill of rights for women, ratified by most of the world.
On these timelines: Women in history, Master
More from Women in history
- Second-wave feminism (1963)
- US women win the vote (19th Amendment) (1920)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
- Indira Gandhi's second premiership (1980)
- Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929)
- Indira Gandhi's first premiership (1966)
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
Around 1979
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)