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How women social movements and change throughtout the course of 1945 - present has helped shaped our country today.

By AAproject

  • The Women International Democratic Federation

  • The preamble to the UN charter

    reffered to equal rights for women

  • 1 of every 4 women worked outside the household

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    The Women International Democratic Federation

  • Female labor force grew

    female labor forces grew by 50%, reahing 19.5 million

  • Goverment swayed public opinion

    CAUSE ~ The goverment swayed public opinion and influenced society through media, which pushed women to return home and serve their families by leaving work.
    EFFECT ~ 4 million women lost their jobs

  • The Modern Woman: The Lost Sex

    published, attributed the "jittery age in which we live to women's abandoment of the home to purse careers"

  • The UN commission on the status of women was established

  • Womens Liberation Movement

    ~ A collective struggle for equality, most active during the late 1960s and 1970s which sought to free women from oppression and male supremacy
    ~ Women Liberation Groups; Fought for equal rights and raised consciousness, lobbied protested, developed feminist theory and changed womens lives

  • UN General Assembly convention

    on the polotical rights of women

  • Voting Equalized for the first time

    The number of men and women voting is approximately equal for the first time

  • New images of women being to emerge

    Barbie is created, marketed as the ideal image of women. This sent a strong message to society, directly to girls who played with her.

  • Women earn less than men

    Women earn .60 cents for every dollar earned by men

  • Approving Birth Control

    Food and drug administration approves birth control pill.

  • Women strike for peace

    Founded by Bella Abzug, protested war and nuclear weapons

  • Publication of the Feminine Mystique by Friedan

    Created for triggering the Women's Movement

  • Equal Pay Act was signed into law

    (Prohibitits employers from paying uneaqual wages, based on gender. Men and women employed in the same establishment.)

  • Civil Rights Act Passed

    Banning discrimination on the basis of color, race, national origin, religion, or sex.
    ~ yet many women felt that there was little or no enforcement.

  • ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)

    ~This was a proposed amendment to the US constitution that would guarantee equality under the law for women.
    ~Passed by congress and sent for the states for ratification

  • Womens Strike for Equality

  • Title 9 of education admendments act

    Prohibited discrimination on basis of sex in public schools

  • Supreme Court, Roe vs Wade

    guarantees womens rights to abortion

  • Pregnacy Discrimination Act

    ~ worked for repeal of abortion laws.
    ~ This was against laws that would restrict abortions avalibility or a pregnant womens role in choosing abortion.

  • Equal Rights Amendment Expires

    because 3 states short ratification

  • Glass ceiling commission

    elimates the " barriers" that blocked qualified women from advancements in work place

  • Violence Against Women Act Passed

    combat gender-based violent crimes

  • Women $ against men $

    Women only made 77cents to every dollar a man earned