Womens Movement

Pass Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Protect reproductive rights

Have the right to an abortion

1973 Roer v. Wade (Supreme Court) the right to legal abortions

Breakdown barriers of discrimination in work + education

Attacked stereotypes, more balance in marriage

Dedicated to true equality, full/ equal partnerships of sexes

Consciousness- raising

the activity of seeking to make people more aware of personal, social, or political issues

Higher Education Act of 1972

Title IX- Banned discrimination in education

Equal Credit Opportunity Act

Illegal to deny credit to a women based on gender

1973 Roer v. Wade

The right to legal abortions

Commission on the Status of Women

Examined workplace discrimination

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Title VII- No discrimination of sex

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Enforced prohibition on job discrimination

Pink Collar Ghettos

Women in workforce had their own lower class jobs that mostly only women worked

Feminization of Poverty

Single mothers struggling with cost and responsibilities

Casey Hayden and Mary King

Veterans of the movement

Betty Frieden

Wrote The Feminist Mystique. Started up the the organization NOW

Sandra Day ' Connor

First Supreme Court Justice to be woman

Gloria Steinem

Feminist, use change through mass media, co founded MS, feminist magazine

Went undercover for playboy, exposed the mistreatment of women in the magazine

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

Phyllis Schlafly

Conservative, political activists, denounced women's liberation, was able to keep the ERA from being passed

Glass ceiling

A term used to described an invisible barrier from rising up the hierarchy