1. The Women’s Movement A Rebirth of Feminism

2. The Miss America Pageant - 1968
Impossible standards of beauty
Objectifies women and therefore harms them
No African American winners to date
Miss America went to Vietnam to entertain troops
Girls should be encouraged to do more

3. The Miss America Pageant - 1968

4. Equal Pay Act 1963
Outlawed paying men more than women for the same job

5. Wages Women vs Men

6. Women in the US Workforce
April 29, 2010

7. Civil Rights Act 1964
Outlawed job discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, AND GENDER
April 29, 2010

8. NOW
National Organization for Women Organized by Betty Friedan and later run by Gloria Steinem Pushed for a Constitutional Amendment for women’s rights…the ERA Equal Rights Amendment

9. Equal Rights Amendment
Constitutional Amendment for equal rights for women. Strong Opposition from “Stop-ERA” group. Led by Phyllis Schlafly Why?

10. Equal Rights Amendment
Didn’t want to lose traditional rights:
Rights to alimony
Right to single gender colleges
Afraid of being included in Drafts
May eliminate special protections in workforce
Also
Thought it gave Federal Govt too much power over state rights.

11. Equal Rights Amendment
10 years of political debate and “fighting”
Needs 38 states to ratify to become a Constitutional Amendment
In 1982 it finally comes to a vote.
….FAILS

12. Title IX Educational Rights for Women
Federally funded schools can not discriminate against women
Admissions
Course Offerings
Sports

13. Roe vs. Wade
Supreme Court rules that state’s cannot deny women the right to an abortion in the first 3 month of pregnancy.
After three months the states have the rights to regulate abortion