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FeminismFrom Suffrage to Third Wave

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Suffrage Realignment The NAWSA becomes the League of

Women Voters

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Suffrage Realignment The National Woman’s Party searches

for a new identity and decides on Equal Rights Amendment

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1920s Social Feminism Sheppard Towner Act, Florence Kelley

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1930s New Deal Women leaders gain visibility in

Roosevelt’s Administration Frances Perkins Mary McLeod Bethune Eleanor Roosevelt

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World War II 6 million women enter the workforce Married women outnumber unmarried

women in the workforce for the first time

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World War II 350,000 women serve in the armed

forces

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1950s and the “domestic ideal”Baby Boom, suburbia, and consumerism

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Origins of Second Wave Feminism Presidential Commission on the Status

of Women, Equal Pay Act, 1963

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Origins of Second Wave Civil Rights Movement, Ella Baker, Civil

Rights Act of 1964

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Origins of Second Wave Betty Friedan, Feminine Mystique The “problem that has no name”

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National Organization for Women Founded by Martha Griffiths, Betty

Friedan, Pauli Murray and others

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Ms. Magazine Gloria Steinem

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Equal Rights Amendment Passes Congress in 1972

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ERA Ratification effort Houston meeting, 1977

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ERA opponents Phyllis Schlafly and Jerry Falwell

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Third Wave Feminism Where are we headed?