The Women's Movement

Equal Rights Amendment

Guarantee equal rights

Protect reproductive rights; right to an abortion

Passed in March 1972

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Title VII

Outlawed discrimination based on sex

Women used the Title to challenge discrimination

EEOC

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Enforced federal prohibition on job discrimination

Commission on the Status of Women

Examined workplace discrimination

Higher Education Act

Title IX

Banned discrimination in education

Equal Credit Opportunity Act

Illegal to deny credit to a women due to her gender

Passed in 1974

Roe v. Wade

Women assured the right to legal abortion

Betty Friedan

Wrote "The Feminine Mystique"

Novel that challenged the housewife stereotype

Inspired women to join the struggle for equal rights

Helped establish NOW

NOW

National Organization for Women

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

Set out to break barriers in education and the workplace

Attacked stereotypes and called for more balanced marriage

Priorities to pass the ERA and protect reproductive rights

Gloria Steinem

Tried to change awareness through the mass media

Exposed the humiliation women endured working as Playboy bunnies

Co-founded "Ms.", a feminist magazine

Title protests the identification of women by marital status

"Pink Collar Ghetto"

The average women still makes less than the average man

Women continue to work in fields that pay less

"Glass Ceiling"

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

Feminization of Poverty

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

Movement openly challenged and opposed by men and women

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

Feminism

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

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

Civil Rights Movement

Inspired women to demand gender equality

Taught women ways to get equality

Black and white women came together

Demanded equal treatment in the workplace

Radical Feminists

Engaged in small-scale consciousness-raising efforts

Public Awareness

Feminists made personal issues political

Sandra Day O'Connor

First female Supreme Court Justice