Womens Movement-Eva Crosson

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Womens Movement-Eva Crosson

outcomes

Roe v. Wade

Right to legal abortion

1973

Equal Credit Opportunity Act

Could get equal credit to men

1974

Higher Education Act

Banned discrimination in education

Title XI

Commission on the Status of Women by Kennedy

investigation into women inequality

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

enforced banned discrimination on hiring

Civil Rights act passed

Title VII

resistance

Phyllis Schlafly

Worried that there would be a draft for women in the military

opposed feminist movement and was very conservative

goals

Reproductive Rights

Wanted rights to abortion

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Demannd gender equality under law

Gets passed by congress, but certain amount of states have to agree to it 2/3 states. They got 35

did not get passed because of conservatives disapproval

This was an attempt to amend the constitution

political, social, and economic equality

leaders

Gloria Steinmen

Revealed how playboy magazine humiliated women

co-founded Ms magazine

Tried to raise awareness through media

Sandra Day O'Connor

Found less opportunities to her male counterparts

First female Supreme Court Justice

Betty Freedman

Helped to establish NOW

The Feminine Mytique

Mary King

Casey Hayden

issues

Feminization of Poverty

women struggled with poverty

single mothers were widows and struggled to get jobs

glass ceiling

still prevalent

invisible barrier between women and men

background

Seneca Falls Convention 1840

1920s got right to vote

1960s and 1970s second wave of feminism for women

events

Pink Collar ghetto

Women jobs-low pay

In the 1970s women gained the to right vote (19th amendment)

strategies

consciousness-raising efforts

women being treated unequal

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Outlawed social discrimination

Thought it would not get passed but it later does

public protests

Advocated against pageants

Organizations

The National Organization of Women