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