Dates and Events
A brief list of critical dates and events in the history of Women Working.
| 1869 | Massachusetts Bureau of the Statistics of Labor Established |
| 1869 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony found the National Woman Suffrage Association. |
| 1869 | Lucy Stone forms the American Woman Suffrage Association |
| 1873 | Carroll Davidson Wright appointed Commissioner of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor |
| 1873 | Ladies' Home Companion published in Springfield, Ohio |
| 1876 | Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia |
| 1877 | Women's Educational and Industrial Union established |
| 1883 | Ladies' Home Journal Founded as a supplement to Tribune and Farmer |
| 1884 | Federal Bureau of Labor Established |
| 1885 | Carroll Davidson Wright appointed United States Commissioner of Labor |
| 1890 | National Woman's Suffrage Association Founded |
| 1892 | General Federation of Women's Clubs Founded |
| 1893 | World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago |
| 1895 | Woman's Home Companion published (formerly Ladies' Home Companion) |
| 1900 | International Ladies Garment Workers Union Formed |
| 1903 | National Women's Trade Union League of America Founded |
| 1904 | Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis World's Fair) |
| 1908 | Muller v. Oregon Supreme Court Decision |
| 1909-1910 | Uprising of the 20,000, New York Shirtwaist workers strike |
| 1910-1911 | Chicago Garment Workers' Strike |
| 1911 | Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire |
| 1911 | Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations Founded |
| 1912 | Lawrence Strike |
| 1912 | Preliminary Report of the New York Factory Investigating Commission |
| 1913 | United States Department of Labor Established |
| 1919 | Bureau of Vocational Information and Vocational Adjustment Bureau |
| 1920 | 19th Amendment Ratified |
| 1920 | Woman's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor established (Organized in 1918 as a war agency) |