Women's Movemnet

Wanted equal oppurtunity in jobs

Gain gender equality

Protect womens reproductive rights

Betty Freidan-wrote the feminine mystique and helped establish the National Organization for Women(NOW)

Gloria Steinman- used mass media to change awareness

Sandra Day O'Connor- first women in the supreme court justice

**1973 Supreme Court case, Roe v Wade

^^Equal Credit opp act-1974

>>Higher education act 1972

<<Civil rights act 1964

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) bigger than just passing a law because it deals with the constitution- --guarantee gender equality and protect reproductive rights but it DID NOT get ratified

Phyillis Schafly claimed the womens liberation was an assualt on family marriage and children, goes against nature

Schafly also thought alomony w ould go away, women would be drafted into war, and they wold do things like desegregating bathrooms

Glass ceiling- the barriers that prevented women from getting better jobs

Dead end, stressful jobs that hindered further careers that were made up of mostly women- known as Pink collar ghettos

Radical feminists protested in effort to reshape the society instead of legislative change

Used specific clauses in the civil rights act to their advantage

Consciousness raising- they would talk about and educate other women how there was more that they could do besides be a housewife

Created Ms.magazine which was a feminist magazine

Exploited organizations like Playboy for humiliating women

National Organization for Women

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Commission n the Status of Women- created by Kennedy that couldn't officially pass the things they wanted

Sparked important debate

An increase in women in the workforce(30%->60%)

More oppurtunities

**assured the right for women to have an abortion

>>Title IX -Banned discrimination in education

^^Illegal to deny women credit

<< Title VII - outlawed discrimination based on sex

Feminization of poverty- single working mothers make up most of the poverty in the US

--guarantee gender equality and protect reproductive rights