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The Women's Movement

The women's movement has seen significant developments in addressing the feminization of poverty, where single women are among the poorest due to low-paying jobs and minimal benefits.

The Women's Movement

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