The Women's Movement

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The Women's Movement

Goals and Strategies

Sandra Day O'Connor

First female Supreme Court Justice

Public Awareness

Feminists made personal issues political

Radical Feminists

Engaged in small-scale consciousness-raising efforts

Demanded equal treatment in the workplace

Black and white women came together

Civil Rights Movement

Taught women ways to get equality

Inspired women to demand gender equality

Feminism

Movement was the second wave of feminism after the right the vote in 1920

Theory and goal of political, social, and economic equality of men and women

Opposition

Phyllis Schlafly

Conservative political activist who denounced women's liberation as a total assault on the family, on marriage, and on children

Wanted to defeat the ERA; said the act would compel women to the military, end sex-segregated bathrooms, and hurt the family

Movement openly challenged and opposed by men and women

Present Day

Feminization of Poverty

The poorest people today are single women because they have lowest paying jobs and the least benefits

"Glass Ceiling"

The advancement of even the most highly educated and skilled women workers is limited

"Pink Collar Ghetto"

Women continue to work in fields that pay less

The average women still makes less than the average man

Organizations/Leaders

Gloria Steinem

Co-founded "Ms.", a feminist magazine

Title protests the identification of women by marital status

Exposed the humiliation women endured working as Playboy bunnies

Tried to change awareness through the mass media

NOW

Priorities to pass the ERA and protect reproductive rights

Attacked stereotypes and called for more balanced marriage

Set out to break barriers in education and the workplace

Dedicated itself to winning full equal rights and balanced partnership of the sexes

National Organization for Women

Betty Friedan

Helped establish NOW

Wrote "The Feminine Mystique"

Inspired women to join the struggle for equal rights

Novel that challenged the housewife stereotype

Legislation

Roe v. Wade

Women assured the right to legal abortion

Equal Credit Opportunity Act

Passed in 1974

Illegal to deny credit to a women due to her gender

Higher Education Act

Title IX

Banned discrimination in education

Commission on the Status of Women

Examined workplace discrimination

Civil Rights Act of 1964

EEOC

Enforced federal prohibition on job discrimination

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Title VII

Women used the Title to challenge discrimination

Outlawed discrimination based on sex

Equal Rights Amendment

Passed in March 1972

Protect reproductive rights; right to an abortion

Guarantee equal rights