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

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