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Women Fight for Equality (The Movement’s Legacy (The New Right and the…
Women Fight for Equality
A New Women’s Movement Arises
Feminism
the belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men
one out of three women
worked for wages
increased by 40%
women had to protest for themselves at antiwar and civil rights movements because men still got the leading role
The jobs available to women—mostly clerical work, domestic service,
retail sales, social work, teaching, and nursing—paid poorly.
The Movement Experiences Gains and Losses
Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination based on race,
religion, national origin, and gender
Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission to handle discrimination
claims
women argued that this commission did not help
National Organization for Women to pursue women’s goals
Equal Rights Amendment
ERA would guarantee that both men and women would enjoy the same rights and protections under the law
The Movement’s Legacy
The New Right and the women’s movement clashed most dramatically over the ERA
35 out of 38 states
8 percent of all medical school graduates and 5 percent
of all law school graduates were women
44%
By 1983 women held 13.5 percent of elected state offices as
well as 24 seats in the U.S. Congress
The ERA went down in defeat
“For we have lived the
second American revolution and our very anger said
a ‘new YES’ to life.”