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40 Basic Rights Women Did Not Have Until The 1970s

Trista June 26, 2019 24 min
Women's rights - Women's liberation movement
Women’s Rights March in the 1970s. Barbara Freeman / Getty Images / Thoughtco.

6. She Couldn’t Be The CEO OF A Fortune 500 Company

Katharine Graham, pictured in 1975, was the publisher of The Washington Post. Wikimedia Commons.

With all the rules, laws, and regulations surrounding women before the 1970s, it’s probably no shock that it took until the early 1970s for a woman to become the CEO of a Fortune 500 Company. Katharine Graham became the first female CEO in American history of a Fortune 500 Company when she took over The Washington Post in 1972. While what she did had never been illegal, this doesn’t take away the fact that Graham broke barriers for many other ladies.

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