Short answers, pulled from the story.
The earliest known poet whose name has been recorded was a woman named Enheduanna, serving as the priestess of the goddess Inanna in ancient Sumer around the 23rd century before the common era. Enheduanna and other women in ancient Mesopotamia could buy, own, sell, and inherit property, and even testify in court as witnesses, though their legal standing remained fragile.
New Zealand became the first country to give women the right to vote on a national level in 1893, followed by Australia in 1902. The British women's movement culminated in 1918 with a bill allowing women over the age of 30 to vote, and the United States passed the 19th Amendment in 1920 to grant women the right to vote.
The Famous Five were Emily Murphy, Irene Marryat Parlby, Nellie Mooney McClung, Louise Crummy McKinney, and Henrietta Muir Edwards. They successfully challenged the legal definition of personhood in 1929 when the British Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy Council overturned a lower court ruling to establish that women were eligible to be appointed to the Senate.
Following the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks in Russia became the first government in human history to provide free abortions to women in state-run hospitals. This radical move contrasted sharply with the patriarchal society of Muscovite Russia that had previously subordinated women to men.
Saudi Arabia ended the male guardianship system requiring women to seek permission from a male family member for several things, including traveling to other nations, in August 2019. This change removed a significant barrier to freedom of movement that had persisted for centuries.
In France, married women could not work without the consent of their husbands until 1965. This restriction was part of a broader pattern of marriage bars across Europe and the United States that restricted married women from working in many professions from the late 19th century to the 1970s.