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Womens Movement

The women's movement sought to address and rectify various forms of discrimination and inequality faced by women in different spheres of life. Legislative milestones such as the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Higher Education Act of 1972, which included Title IX, played pivotal roles in prohibiting gender-based discrimination in credit and education, respectively.

Womens Movement

Womens Movement

Anti- feminist

Glass ceiling
A term used to described an invisible barrier from rising up the hierarchy
Phyllis Schlafly
Conservative, political activists, denounced women's liberation, was able to keep the ERA from being passed

Feminism

The theory of political, social, and economic equality of women

Leaders of the Movement

Gloria Steinem
Went undercover for playboy, exposed the mistreatment of women in the magazine
Feminist, use change through mass media, co founded MS, feminist magazine
Sandra Day ' Connor
First Supreme Court Justice to be woman
Betty Frieden
Wrote The Feminist Mystique. Started up the the organization NOW
Casey Hayden and Mary King
Veterans of the movement

Outcomes of movement

Feminization of Poverty
Single mothers struggling with cost and responsibilities
Pink Collar Ghettos
Women in workforce had their own lower class jobs that mostly only women worked
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Enforced prohibition on job discrimination
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Title VII- No discrimination of sex
Commission on the Status of Women
Examined workplace discrimination
1973 Roer v. Wade
The right to legal abortions
Equal Credit Opportunity Act
Illegal to deny credit to a women based on gender
Higher Education Act of 1972
Title IX- Banned discrimination in education

Goals for the movement

Consciousness- raising
the activity of seeking to make people more aware of personal, social, or political issues
Dedicated to true equality, full/ equal partnerships of sexes
Attacked stereotypes, more balance in marriage
Breakdown barriers of discrimination in work + education

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Protect reproductive rights
1973 Roer v. Wade (Supreme Court) the right to legal abortions
Have the right to an abortion
Pass Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)