1. The Women’s Rights Movement
The Second Wave

2. What IS feminism?

3. Feminism – the theory of political, social, and economic quality of men and women
A “second wave”
First wave – 1920s Seneca Falls Conference and the 19th Amendment
Rebirth of the Women’s movement in the 1960s and 70s
Changing and challenging traditional roles

4. A Housewife is a sign of a good life!

5. A Housewife is a sign of a good life!

6. A Housewife is a sign of a good life!

7. A Housewife is a sign of a good life!

8. A Housewife is a sign of a good life!

9. A Housewife is a sign of a good life!

10. A Housewife is a sign of a good life!

11. A Housewife is a sign of a good life!

12. A Housewife is a sign of a good life!

13. A Housewife is a sign of a good life!

14. A Housewife is a sign of a good life!

15. A Housewife is a sign of a good life!

16. A Housewife is a sign of a good life!

17. Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique “Is this all?”
Establishes National Organization of Women (NOW) – dedicated to winning “true equality for all women” and “full and equal partnership of the sexes”

18. Gloria Steinem Journalist, co-founder of Ms. Magazine
“Sex and race, because they are easily visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends.”

19. Radical Feminism

20. Miss America Protest

21. Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification

22. Equal Rights Amendment
Proposed in the 1920s but never passed
Introduced every year
Deadline for ratification extended to June 30, 1982
Fell three states short of the required 38 for ratification

24. Why did the ERA die?

25. Phyllis Schlafly
“Feminism is doomed…because it [attempts] to repreal and restructure human nature”
“Women have babies and men provide support. If you don’t like the way we’re made you’ve got to take it up with God.”

26. Anti-feminist fear the ERA will:
Lead to a draft of women
End laws protecting homemakers
End husbands responsibility to care for the family
Lead to same-sex marriage

27. Lasting Effects
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – outlawed discrimination based on sex
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – federal prohibition on job discrimination
Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1972 – outlawed discrimination in education
Equal Credit Opportunity Act – illegal to deny credit based on gender

28. Roe v. Wade Legalized abortion
Right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion
Still a controversial decision