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1960's to 2019 Women Movement
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first oral contraceptive, commonly known as "the Pill," for sale as birth control in the United States. -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
Women Strike for Peace, founded by Bella Abzug and Dagmar Wilson, drew 50,000 women nationwide to protest nuclear weapons and U.S. involvement in war in southeast Asia. -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order establishing the President's Commission on the Status of Women. He appointed former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to chair the commission. -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan was published. -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
Anne Moody, who later wrote Coming of Age in Mississippi, participated in a Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in. -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy. -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in outer space, another Soviet first in the U.S.-U.S.S.R. "space race." -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including the Title VII prohibition of discrimination based on sex by private employers including employment agencies and unions. -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
The Newark Museum exhibit "Women Artists of America: 1707-1964" looked at women's art, often neglected in the art world. -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
The National Organization for Women, known as NOW, was founded. -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
The EEOC ruled that being female was not a bona fide occupational qualification of being a flight attendant. -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
The "Miss America Protest" by New York Radical Women at the Miss America pageant brought widespread media attention to women's liberation. -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
Condoleezza Rice becomes the first female US national security adviser -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
March for Women's Lives in Washington, DC; an estimated one million people march to support women's reproductive rights -
1960's to 2019 Women Movement
The Society for the Psychology of Women Special Committee on Violence Against Women publishes a report on the trafficking of women and girls.
