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Social activist, write, editor and lectuarer. She used the media to influence the voices of the womens rights movent. She worked to promote equal rights for women by working on the equal rights amendment, Womens Action Allience, and Womens strike for equality.
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Prohibits discrimination in wages for people of different sex. Caused because the women were getting paid much less for doing the same as the men.
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Outlawed any discrimination against any minority groups. Ended unequal voting, segregation in schools and in the work place.
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Designed to garuntee equal rights for women. Passed the House and Senate but failed to recive redification from the states. http://www.enotes.com/1970-law-justice-american-decades/equal-rights-amendment
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Everyone is allowed to participate in education programs, no matter the race or gender.
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Was about the issue of abortion. Support for the womens right to have an abortion.
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-Opened higher education for women
-Better job opportunites (medicine)
-Women came together in order to try to stop discrimnation of all types
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-Today there is still a hidden bias with women in the workplace and other places. Employers are more likely to hire a man because of this bias.
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4975
