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Womens Movement-Eva Crosson

The women's movement has seen several key phases, starting with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1840 and continuing through the 1920s when women secured the right to vote. The movement gained new momentum during the 1960s and 1970s, famously known as the second wave of feminism, which sought gender equality across various domains.

Womens Movement-Eva Crosson

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