Short answers, pulled from the story.
Pauline M. Leet coined the term sexism on the 18th of November 1965 at Franklin and Marshall College. The word did not appear in print until 1968 when Caroline Bird delivered a speech titled On Being Born Female to the Episcopal Church Executive Council.
The Malleus Maleficarum or Hammer of Witches was published in 1487 and served as a manual for identifying and destroying women. Heinrich Kramer wrote the text to argue that women were inherently more wicked than men and a necessary evil.
New Zealand became the first country to allow women to cast ballots in national elections in 1893. Saudi Arabia was the most recent country to extend the right to vote to women in 2011.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development found that women earn 17% less than men on average in 2008. The female-to-male earnings ratio in the United States was 0.77 in 2009.
Nine countries conscript women into their armed forces including China, Eritrea, Israel, Libya, Malaysia, North Korea, Norway, Peru, and Taiwan. Norway became the first NATO country to introduce obligatory military service for women in 2014.