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Women's Rights Movement (Lasting effects (Women gained legal rights…
Women's Rights Movement
Second wave of feminism
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The number of women in the workplace grew through the 1950's and 1960's, but women were often at deadend jobs and had their access to careers or advancements blocked
Women use their voice
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NOWs priorities
Bring about the passage of Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) which would guarantee gender equality under law
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Gloria Steinem used mass media to reveal the humiliation many had to endure to make a living. She also helped create the Ms. magazine to protest the social custom of identifying women by their marital status rather than as individuals
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Lasting effects
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave feminists a legal tool and set up the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to enforce the federal prohibition on job discrimination
President Kennedy established the Commission on the status of women in 1961 to examine workplace discrimination
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