1960 |
July Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (1916-2000) becomes prime minister of Ceylon, making her the world's first. |
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1960
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Yvonne Pope becomes Britain's first woman air traffic controller. She will also become the first woman captain with Dan Air in 1975. |
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1960 |
The National Housewives' Register is set up by Mary Nichol. |
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1960 |
Primatologist听Jane Goodall (born 1934) leaves England for Lake Tanganyika to begin her study of chimpanzees. |
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1961 |
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1962 |
Elizabeth Lane becomes the first woman County Court judge. |
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1962 |
Rachel Carson's (1907-1964) book Silent Spring听is published, raising awareness of environmental issues for the first time. |
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1962 |
Barbara Salt is appointed ambassador to Israel, making her the first British woman to be appointed. But sadly she becomes too ill to take up her post. It wasn't until 1976 that Anne Warburton became the first woman ambassador to take up her post听in Denmark.听 |
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1962 |
The Pre-school Playgroups Association is set up to provide much needed provision for under-fives. |
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1963 |
From the 16 to the 19 of June Lt. Col Valentina Tereschkova (born 1937) orbits the Earth 48 times, making her the first woman in space. |
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1963 |
(1932-1963) publishes The Bell Jar. |
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1963 |
Betty Friedan (born 1921) publishes The Feminine Mystique, the first book to analyse the role of women in American Society and raise issues of emancipation. |
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1963 |
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1963 |
Pianist Fanny Waterman founds the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, which will become one of the leading piano competitions in the world. |
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1964 |
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin听 (1910-1944) wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and in particular for her work on penicillin and determining the structure of vitamin B-12.听 |
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1964 |
Mary Rand becomes the first British woman to win a gold medal in athletics when she wins the long jump at the Tokyo Olympics. |
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1964 |
The Married Women's Property Act entitles a woman to keep half of any savings she had made from the allowance she was given by her husband. |
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1965 |
The model Jean Shrimpton shocks the world when she appears at the Melbourne races wearing a short skirt and no gloves. |
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1965 |
Barbara Castle听 (1910-2002) is appointed Minister of Transport, becoming the first female Secretary of State. |
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1966 |
Twiggy makes her first appearance at a photo shoot. |
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1966 |
Shelia Scott is the first British woman to fly round the world. |
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1966 |
In the USA, the National Organisation for Women (NOW) is founded by Betty Friedan and other feminists to campaign for equal rights. This is still the most powerful women's lobbying group in the USA. |
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1966 |
Indira Ghandi becomes the first woman Prime Minister of India. |
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1966 |
The Jockey Club allow women to hold training licences. |
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1967 |
The first mammography machine is developed. |
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1967 |
The cyclist Beryl Burton (1937-1996) beats all competitors, including Britain's championship men, in a 12-hour continuous cycle race in Otley, West Yorkshire. This was the first time a woman had ever won a mixed athletic race. |
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1967 |
Designer Laura Ashley (1925-1985) opens her first shop in Kensington.听 |
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1967 |
A research student Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1947) discovers the first pulsar. In 1974 it was her supervisor who received the Nobel Prize. |
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1967 |
Under the new Abortion Law, abortion in Britain under medical supervision is made legal within certain criteria. |
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1967 |
Dame Cicely Saunders (born 1918) founds the first hospice, St Christopher's, in Sydenham South London. |
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1968 |
850 women machinists at Fords of Dagenham go on strike for equal pay. This paves the way for the Equal Pay act two years later. |
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1969 |
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1969 |
Golda Meir (1898-1978) becomes Israel 's first woman Prime Minister. |
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1969 |
Six days before her 22nd birthday, Bernadette Devlin becomes the youngest ever member of the British parliament. |
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1969 |
The Representation of the People Act extends the vote to all men and women over the age of 18 years. |
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1969 |
first novel The Edible Woman听is published. |
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