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The Women's RIght Movement (Raising Society's Awareness download…
The Women's RIght Movement
Redefine Traditional Roles
Objected the inaccuracy of the housewife sterotype
Some need work to support family
Others wanted more oppotunities
Betty Friedan asked the question "is this all" in the Feminine Mystique, 1963
Better work
The number of women in the workfrce grew throughout the 1950s and the 1960s but women were often deadend jobs
Even with training and education had their acess to career or advancement blocked
Sandra Day O'Connor Became the first female supreme court justice graudcated at the top of her class and still found very few Opportunies
These restrictions made women demanded equal treatment in the workplace
National Organization for Women (NOW) Made by Betty Friedan
Dedicated itself to winning "true equaity for all women" and to attaining a "full and equal partnership of the sexs"
Had two Major priorites
Protect reproductive rights especially the right to an abortion
Equal Right Amendment (ERA). an amndment to the COnstitution that would guarantee gender equality under the law
Raising Society's Awareness
Public protests of the Miss AMercia Pageant
Raise public awareness by making personal issues political
Glordia Steinem tried to cahnge awareness through mass media
Worked uncover at a club runned by playboy and revealed how much humiliation they had to endure to make a living
In 1972, She helped co-found Ms. (a feminist magazine)
Opposing the Women's movement
phyllis Schlafy is a consrvative political activist who worked haed to defeat the ERA, aguring that the act would compel women to fight in the military, end sex-segregated Bathrooms and hurt the families
The ERA fell three stages short of becoming a constitutional amendment
Some Men and women openly challenged the women's movement
Making legal Headway
Civil rights Act of 1964 included a clause that outlawd discrimination on the basis of sex
The bill also set up the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforce the federal prohibition on job discrimination
The commssion on the status of women in 1961 to examine workplace discrimination
The equal credit opportunity act passed in 1974 made it illegal to deny credit to a women just because of her gender
1973 supreme court decision in ROe V. Wade, which assured women the right to legal abortions. befoe this, most states outlawed or severely restricted abortion. this caused women to turn to illegal and dangerous ways to end their pregnancies
The workplace slowly changes
The percentage of women in thr workplace has grown from about 30 percent in 1950 to more than 60 percent in 2000 and so has the number of married female workers
Fields like medicine and law which had sverely limited women has opened up
Despite these gains, the average woman still earns less than the average man
The united states ha witnessed a feminzation of poverty over the past 30 years. this means the majority of the nations poor people are single women because they are in the lowest paying jobs with the fewest benefits. many of these por women are single mothers who must bear the cost and responsibilites of raising children alone while also working
