Liberationmovement

The Women's Liberation Movement

By Mollybenson
  • Birth Control Pills Approved

    Birth Control Pills Approved

    The FDA approves birth control pills. They were ready to buy the year after.

  • Presidential Commission On The Status of women

    Esther Peterson was the highest ranking woman in the JFK administration, created a commission to look into feminist obstacles

  • Equal Pay Act

  • The Civil Rights Act Of 1964

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by Congress and signed by President Johnson. This prohibited discrimination in the work environment based on gender.

  • The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioners (EEOC) were appointed to oversee the enforcement of the Civil Rights Act.

  • Executive Order 11246

    President Johnson’s Executive Order 11246 ordered “federal agencies and federal contractor’s to take ‘affirmative action ‘ in overcoming employment discrimination”.

  • 3d National Confrence On The Status Of Women Was Held

    Comission refused to take sexual discrimination seriously and called it a "fluke'.
  • NOW Is Created

    NOW Is Created

    Because the EEOC was unable to enforce the Civil Rights Act, 28 women formed the National Organization for Women (NOW). The group's first president was Betty Friedan. She published a brilliant, striking criticism on a woman’s place in the home in 1963, calling it a “comfortable concentration camp”

  • First Domestic VIolence Shelters

  • Legalization of Abortion

  • National Family Violence Survey

  • NOW Reaches 100,000 Members