Womens Movement

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Womens Movement

Anti- feminist

Glass ceiling

A term used to described an invisible barrier from rising up the hierarchy

Phyllis Schlafly

Conservative, political activists, denounced women's liberation, was able to keep the ERA from being passed

Feminism

The theory of political, social, and economic equality of women

Leaders of the Movement

Gloria Steinem

Went undercover for playboy, exposed the mistreatment of women in the magazine

Feminist, use change through mass media, co founded MS, feminist magazine

Sandra Day ' Connor

First Supreme Court Justice to be woman

Betty Frieden

Wrote The Feminist Mystique. Started up the the organization NOW

Casey Hayden and Mary King

Veterans of the movement

Outcomes of movement

Feminization of Poverty

Single mothers struggling with cost and responsibilities

Pink Collar Ghettos

Women in workforce had their own lower class jobs that mostly only women worked

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Enforced prohibition on job discrimination

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Title VII- No discrimination of sex

Commission on the Status of Women

Examined workplace discrimination

1973 Roer v. Wade

The right to legal abortions

Equal Credit Opportunity Act

Illegal to deny credit to a women based on gender

Higher Education Act of 1972

Title IX- Banned discrimination in education

Goals for the movement

Consciousness- raising

the activity of seeking to make people more aware of personal, social, or political issues

Dedicated to true equality, full/ equal partnerships of sexes

Attacked stereotypes, more balance in marriage

Breakdown barriers of discrimination in work + education

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Protect reproductive rights

1973 Roer v. Wade (Supreme Court) the right to legal abortions

Have the right to an abortion

Pass Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)