WOMENS RIGHTS1945-1985
With the Seneca Falls convention long gone and the 19th amendment already passed and women having worked so hard in the war. many people believed that with Women's rights higher than they were before that they had enough but they weren’t satisfied and during this period they attained a lot of the equality they had been searching for.
Womens Rights
Equal Rights Amendment
• Written by Alice Paul (Womens Nationalist Party) in 1923
• Called for equal justice under law and no rights shall be denied by account of Sex
• Not passed had 35/38 neccesarry votes.• It has been reintroduced to every congress since 1972
Alice Paul
• Born January 11, 1885• Wrote the ERA• Was part of the first wave of Women's Rights• Part of the Women's Nationalist Party• Began much to spark feminist movements
Gloria Steinem
born March 25, 1934 Founded/cofounded Womens Action Alliance NWPC, the
Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Ms. Foundation for Women,Choice USA, and Womens Media Center
Published many books, articles and still writes in Magazines
Books Include: The Thousand Indias (1957) The Beach Book (1963) Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983) Marilyn: Norma Jean (1986) Revolution from Within (1992) Moving beyond Words (1993) Doing Sixty & Seventy (2006)
Prochoice, Supports same sex marriage, against pornography and transexualism
Radical Feminist
Gloria Steinem
Helen Gurley Brown
born February 18, 1922 Her biggest book :Sex and the Single Girl Sex and the Office (1965), Helen Gurley
Brown's Single Girl's Cookbook (1969), and Sex and the New Single Girl (1970).
Editor of Cosmopolitan for 32 years Supported the glamorous idea of a girl
Helen Gurley Brown
Betty Friedan
February 4, 1921 - February 4, 2006 Feminine Mystique, The Second Stage, It Changed
My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement, Beyond Gender, and The Fountain of Age. Life so Far,
In 1966 Friedan co-founded, and became the first president of, the National Organization for Women. Which organized the Womens Strike for equality.
Tried to focus on more economic issues instead of more popular feminine issues like abortion, pornography and lesbian.
Founded National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, renamed National Abortion Rights Action League
Betty Friedan
Women's Strike for Equality
50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment 59 cents for every dollar a man made in
similar work August 26, 1970.
Women's Strike for Equality
Germaine Greer
born 29 January 1939 Traveled much of the world Radical and very controversial Was vulgar in her speeches Considered an anarchist The Female eunuch- bestseller was
written to tell women that men hated them
Many other writings over a broad range of topics.
Germaine Greer
Pauli Murray
November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985 African American Rejected from over 3 prestigious universities
because of race and sexuality first African-American woman to become an
Episcopal priest. Murray was one of the founders of the
Women's Rights Law Reporter, the first legal periodical to focus exclusively on women's rights
Died of pancreatic cancer
Pauli Murray
EPA
signed into law on June 10, 1963 by John F. Kennedy
the first step towards an adjustment of balance in pay for women
Did not include women who were executives or had white collar jobs
Protected equal work, equal pay for many women
EPA
Title IX
enacted on June 23, 1972 Mainly helped sports for women Many boys teams declined but football greatly
increased. Let women participate in more activities that
they had been denied before. “No person in the United States shall, on the
basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance”
Title IX
Phyllis Schlafly
born August 15, 1924 Anti-Womens Rights Founded The Eagle forum and The Eagle Forum
Education and Defense Fund (“pro-family”) Father became unemployed and her mother
worked for the family for many years. Against same sex marriage and homosexual
activity Son is a homosexual but “embraces his mother
views” Ran for congress in 1952 (lost) Opposed ERA strongly
Phyllis Schafly
Sally Ride
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