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America 1970-73 (Betty Freidan (The Feminine Mystique: she argued that for…
America 1970-73
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Betty Freidan
The Feminine Mystique: she argued that for middle-class women home had become like a concentration camp and wanted to break out of the limited environment
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set up NOW (The National Organisation for Women) in 1966, it adopted a Bill of Rights eg. maternity leave right, child daycare centres, right to control their reproductive lives, equal job training opportunities
Roe vs. Wade, 1973
Supreme Court decision to make abortion legal, gave women the choice to terminate within the first trimester
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Equal Pay Act, 1963
petitions, strikes and threat of legal action took place to ensure employers were providing equal opportunities and wages
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Opposition
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not all women were supportive of these changes, anti abortionists and women who opposed the idea of encouraging contraception and pre-marital sex
Supreme Court Ruling on Equal Rights, 1972
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