Film producer Julia Philips is the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Picture as a producer for The Sting. Her 1977 film Taxi Driver is also nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
The first shelter for battered women opens in Tucson, Arizona, offering women and their children a way to leave abusive relationships.
Radical writer in the women’s movement Andrea Dworkin publishes Woman Hating.
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy becomes the first service academy to enroll women.
Chemical technician Karen Silkwood believes her company is falsifying its records with regard to plant and worker safety. She is gathering evidence of her claim when she is killed in a mysterious car crash.
Katharine Meyer Graham is the first woman member of the board of the Associated Press. Later, as editor of the Washington Post, it is her decision to break the Watergate story. She says: “Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.”