Women's movement

National Organization for Women (NOW). They had major goals of gaining the right to abortion, and getting the Equal rights amendment passed

The ERA was an attempt to amend the constitution

brought black and white women ftogeather

Women gained legal rights

Women refused to work in Higher paying fields - Pink Collar ghetto

"Glass Ceiling" Limits how far the movement can really go

Feminization of poverty - in pushing fr women to have independence forced higher divorce rates which leads to many more women in poverty

Higher education act - Title IX - No one can be discriminated for school based on sex

Equal Credit Opportunity Act

1973 supreme court decision in Roe v Wade assued women the right to legal aboritons

Sandra Day O'connor

Betty friedan

Wrote the Feminine Mystique

Charlotte Bunch

Gloria Steinem

Created the Ms. magazine which was a feminist magazine against the playboy magazine

Many Major companies and jobs would not offer women such as when Sandra day O'connor graduated almost top of her class from stanford and had few offers

Mena and women challenged it

Phyllis Schlafly openly went against the movement calling it against

Many conservatives

The ERA fell 3 states short of being a constitutional amendment

Women were told they had a

Public Protest

especially of the Miss America Contest

Small scale Consciousness raising efforts

Raising society awareness

Civil rights movement had women demand equality for them too

The civil rights act of 1946

Clause Title VII outlawed discrimination on basis of sex