Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American suffragette leader, dies. Marie Curie wins Nobel Prize for physics for discovery of radioactivity.
Women garment workers strike in New York City over wages and working conditions.
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science Church, dies. Mothers and daughters continue to sort out age-old conflicts. Women's work is still at home as well as the workplace. But, the 20th century did change everything and women will never be the same. We are but one species, after all, and the forces of history happen to us all.