Portal:Feminism/Selected anniversaries/January

January 1920 – Shin Fujin Kyokai (The New Woman Association) drafts its demands to the Japanese government, insisting that the law allow women to participate in politics and that divorce be equitable
January 1972 – First publication of Ms. magazine, founded by Gloria Steinem and Letty Cottin Pogrebin
5 January 1925 – Sworn in as governor of Wyoming, Nellie Tayloe Ross (pictured) became the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state
22 January 1973 – Roe v. Wade decided by the United States Supreme Court, legalizing abortion
23 January 1823 – Birth of Camilla Collett, considered Norway's first feminist; her only novel deals with the difficulties of being a woman in a patriarchal society