Women's Movement
Goals/Stragedies
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
Feminists raised public awareness by making personal issues political
radical feminists engaged in small-scale consciousness-raising efforts
Facing restrictions, women increasingly demanded equal treatment in the workplace
Black and white women cam together, strengthened their cause
Inspired to demand gender equality and taught them ways to get it
Civil rights struggle prompted women to look at how society judged and discriminated them as a group
This movement was the second wave of feminism after the right to vote in 1920
Feminism- The theory and goal of political, social, and economic equality of men and women
Opposition
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
men and women openly challenged and opposed this movement
present day
Glass Ceiling- limited the advancement of even the most highly educated women skilled workers
Pink Collar Ghetto- the average women still makes less than the average man - most women still work in fields that pay less
Feminization of poverty--poorest people today are single women bc lowest paying jobs and least amount of benefits
Organizations/Leaders
Gloria Steinem
co founded MS., a feminist magazine
title protests the identification of women by marital status
expose the humiliation that women endured working for playboy, which was percieved as glamorous
tried to change awareness through the mass media
NOW- national organization for women
2 priorities
protect reproductive rights - protect legal abortion to prevent illegal/unsafe abortions
pass ERA- grantee full legal equality -- that failed in 1920's
attacked stereotypes and called for more balanced marriage
Set out to break barriers in education and the workplace
Organization that dedicated itself to winning full equal rights and a balanced partnership of the sexes
Betty Friedan
helped establish NOW
Wrote The Feminine Mystique, a novel that challenged the ousewife stereotype and inspired women to join the struggle for equal rights
Achievements
Roe vs Wade
women assured the right to legal abortion
Equal Credit Opportunity Act
1974
illegal to deny credit to a women
Higher Education Act
Title IX
Banned discrimination in education
Commission on the Status of Women
examined workplace discrimination
Civil Rights Act of 1964
EEOC
enforced federal prohibition on job discrimination
equal employment opportunity commission
Title VII
women used the title to challenge discrimination
Outlawed discrimination based on sex
Equal Rights Amendment
passed March 1972
protected reproductive rights, right to an abortion
equal rights garunteed
