Women Fight for Equality

1. Experiences in the workplace
Women had a lot of experience in the workplace because they would do there jobs for little or no pay even when doing the same jobs as men.

2. Experiences in social activism
Women would often take part in social activities but would often get brushed aside by men.

3. "Consciousness raising"
Women developed this, which is a small group of women talking about there concerns and shared there lives with each other and finding out that they are similar. They often face sexism and discrimination based on their gender.

4. Feminism
Is the belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men.

5. Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique
She was a writer who said that she had a loving husband, healthy children, and she lived in the Suburbs. This is all true but she was not happy because women do everything around the house, cook, clean, and watch the kids but they get no reward and the least they can do is get paid and she is pretty much saying she is not getting equal rights as men.

6. Civil Rights Act of 1964
A law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places and most work places.

7. National Organization for Women (NOW)
This organization placed kids in childcare facilities so that there mothers are able to get an education and a job.

8. Gloria Steinem and Ms. Magazine
She is a journalist, political activist, a supporter of the Women's Liberation Movement, made her voice known about her views on feminism and equality, she founded the National Women's Political Caucus, and the Ms. Magazine designed to treat issues from a feminists perspective.

9. Congress

10. Supreme Court

11. The Equal rights Amendment would have guaranteed equal rights under the law, regardless of gender. Who opposed this amendment? Why?
Radical Feminists because in there minds they hate men, marriage, and children. Conservative religious groups, political organizations, and anti-feminists because they believed that the ERA would create a disaster by drafting women, end the laws protecting homemakers, the end of husbands taking the responsibility to provide for his family, and the same sex marriages.