Women's Movement

Equal Rights Amendment

equal rights garunteed

protected reproductive rights, right to an abortion

passed 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

1974

Roe vs Wade

women assured the right to legal abortion

Betty Friedan

Wrote The Feminine Mystique, a novel that challenged the ousewife stereotype and inspired women to join the struggle for equal rights

helped establish NOW

NOW- national organization for women

Organization that dedicated itself to winning full equal rights and a balanced partnership of the sexes

Set out to break barriers in education and the workplace

attacked stereotypes and called for more balanced marriage

2 priorities

pass ERA- grantee full legal equality -- that failed in 1920's

protect reproductive rights - protect legal abortion to prevent illegal/unsafe abortions

Gloria Steinem

tried to change awareness through the mass media

expose the humiliation that women endured working for playboy, which was percieved as glamorous

co founded MS., a feminist magazine

title protests the identification of women by marital status

Feminization of poverty--poorest people today are single women bc lowest paying jobs and least amount of benefits

Pink Collar Ghetto- the average women still makes less than the average man - most women still work in fields that pay less

Glass Ceiling- limited the advancement of even the most highly educated women skilled workers

men and women openly challenged and opposed this movement

Phyllis Schlafly

conservative political activist who denounced women's liberation as a total assault on the family, on marriage, and on children

she wanted to defeat the ERA saying that the act would compel women to right in the military, end sex- segregated bathrooms, and hurt the family

Feminism- The theory and goal of political, social, and economic equality of men and women

This movement was the second wave of feminism after the right to vote in 1920

Civil rights struggle prompted women to look at how society judged and discriminated them as a group

Inspired to demand gender equality and taught them ways to get it

Black and white women cam together, strengthened their cause

Facing restrictions, women increasingly demanded equal treatment in the workplace

radical feminists engaged in small-scale consciousness-raising efforts

Feminists raised public awareness by making personal issues political

Sandra Day O'Connor

important to the movement and what it wanted because she became the first female Supreme Court Justice, but her male counterparts still won job offers at prestigious law firms