Chapter 23.2 Women’s Fight for Equality

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Chapter 23.2 Women’s Fight for Equality Feminism is the belief that women should have economic, political and social equality Awakened in the 1960s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDad20PkgDo

Workplace In 1950 only one of three women worked for wages Women faced obstacles such as “men’s work” Female jobs: clerical, domestic service; retail sales; social workers; teaching and nursing All for low wages

Kennedy’s Presidency JFK 1961 established the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women Women were not being promoted in businesses, and were paid less than men doing the same job

Activism Working on the Civil rights and Anti-War movements gave women the training to organize “The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Freidan when published helped to fuel the Women’s Movement The creation of NOW National Organized of Women is formed

Betty Friedan & Gloria Steinem

Civil Rights Act of 1964 Prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin or gender NOW in the first three years grew to 175,000 members Gloria Steinem a journalist created MS Magazine in 1972

Legal & Social Gains 1972 Congress passed a ban on gender discrimination in “any education program or activity” receiving federal funding Working parents also received tax credit for child care expenses if both parents worked

Legal Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision saying that a women had the right to chose an abortion with in the first 3 months of pregnancy Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) would change constitution to say all men and women are created equal Phyllis Schlafly conservative movement against ERA. Scared women said if passed women would be drafted New Right conservative against abortion and ERA

Conservative Phyllis Schlafly Believed women had the right to be supported by their husbands. Equality would mean higher divorce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaYWDCF7Z7w

Legacy of Women’s Movement 1977 ERA had won approval from 35 of 38 states it needed. Never passed. Movement expanded career and educational opportunities for women. Women started applying to medical and law school