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) magazine, founded by Gloria Steinem and Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- 5 January 1925 – Sworn in as governor of 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 feminist; her only novel deals with the difficulties of being a woman in a patriarchalsociety