1. CIVIL RIGHTS OPEN-NOTES TEST TOMORROW NOTES-CHECK #s 61–63 TOMORROW
May 10, 2017
U.S. History Agenda:
DO NOW: Term Matching
NOTES #62: How did women gain greater rights during the 1960s and 1970s?
NOTES #63: How did other minorities gain greater rights throughout the mid to late 1900s?
CIVIL RIGHTS OPEN-NOTES TEST TOMORROW
(BASED ON NOTES #s 61, 62, and 63)
NOTES-CHECK #s 61–63 TOMORROW

2. How did women gain greater rights during the 1960s and 1970s? Notes #62

3. Beginning in the 1960s, women began to push for equal economic opportunities in the workplace.

4. This new women’s rights movement was energized by Betty Friedan’s 1963 book The Feminine Mystique.

5. In 1963, wage discrimination based on sex was banned by the Equal Pay Act.

6. In 1964, job discrimination based on sex was banned by the Civil Rights Act.

7. The National Organization for Women was formed in 1966 to push for greater women’s rights.

8. In 1972, women in education were guaranteed the right to the same financial support as men by Title IX.

9. The Equal Rights Amendment was approved by Congress in 1972 to protect “equal rights under the law” for women.

10. However, this amendment was never ratified by enough states to be part of the U.S. Constitution.

11. In the 1973 case Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that abortions for women were legal, based on their “right to privacy”.
Norma McCorvey