Joe Ficarotta - Women's Movement

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Women's Movemnet

Outcomes

--guarantee gender equality and protect reproductive rights

Feminization of poverty- single working mothers make up most of the poverty in the US

<< Title VII - outlawed discrimination based on sex

^^Illegal to deny women credit

>>Title IX -Banned discrimination in education

**assured the right for women to have an abortion

More oppurtunities

An increase in women in the workforce(30%->60%)

Sparked important debate

Organizations

Commission n the Status of Women- created by Kennedy that couldn't officially pass the things they wanted

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

National Organization for Women

Strategies

Exploited organizations like Playboy for humiliating women

Created Ms.magazine which was a feminist magazine

Consciousness raising- they would talk about and educate other women how there was more that they could do besides be a housewife

Used specific clauses in the civil rights act to their advantage

Radical feminists protested in effort to reshape the society instead of legislative change

Resistance

Dead end, stressful jobs that hindered further careers that were made up of mostly women- known as Pink collar ghettos

Glass ceiling- the barriers that prevented women from getting better jobs

Schafly also thought alomony w ould go away, women would be drafted into war, and they wold do things like desegregating bathrooms

Phyillis Schafly claimed the womens liberation was an assualt on family marriage and children, goes against nature

Major events

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) bigger than just passing a law because it deals with the constitution- --guarantee gender equality and protect reproductive rights but it DID NOT get ratified

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>>Higher education act 1972

^^Equal Credit opp act-1974

**1973 Supreme Court case, Roe v Wade

Leaders

Sandra Day O'Connor- first women in the supreme court justice

Gloria Steinman- used mass media to change awareness

Betty Freidan-wrote the feminine mystique and helped establish the National Organization for Women(NOW)

Goals

Protect womens reproductive rights

Gain gender equality

Wanted equal oppurtunity in jobs