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1920

America

..... the League of Women Voters was founded by Carrie Chapman Catt to provide support for newly enfranchised women

..... Congress passed an act creating the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labour to promote women's working conditions and improve their wages

United Kingdom

..... Elizabeth Haldane was appointed the first woman Justice of the Peace in Scotland

..... the Married Women's Property (Scotland) Act extended the right of women in Scotland to own property

..... women's sports took off during the First World War when women factory workers formed football teams and the most successful was Dick Kerr's Ladies, named after a Preston engineering works. In 1920, 53,000 watched them play St Helens Ladies. The Football Association then passed a resolution " Football is quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged"

..... Suzanne Lenglen won the Wimbledon Ladies Championship

..... the International Federation of University Women was founded by Caroline Spurgeon

..... Miss C Griff was appointed the first woman member of the Institution of Automobile Engineers and Miss G L Entwistle became the first woman member of the Society of Technical Engineers

Around The World

..... Czechoslovakia ..... women gained equal voting rights

..... Norway ..... the phrase stating that women must obey their husbands was removed from the marriage service

Dated items

February 24th ..... UNITED KINGDOM .....  Viscountess Astor became the first woman to speak in Parliament

May 18th ..... UNITED KINGDOM ..... women professors at Oxford University were given equal status to their male colleagues

June 15th ..... UNITED KINGDOM ..... Dame Nellie Melba ( Helen Porter Mitchell)  became the first person to be heard on radio in an historic event which was transmitted all over Europe

August 26th ..... AMERICA ..... the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in Washington and gave women equal voting rights in all states

October 7th ..... UNITED KINGDOM ..... Oxford University admitted its first 100 women to study for full degrees and male and female professor status is levelled