Feminism

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  • very early fiminism

    Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a proposed Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing equal rights for women. First introduced in Congress in 1923,

  • early feminism

    During the 1960s, influenced and inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, women of all ages began to fight to secure a stronger role in American society.

  • Feminism

    Medical science also contributed a tool to assist women in their liberation. In 1960, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the birth control pill, freeing women from the restrictions of pregnancy and childbearing.

  • early feminism

    Title VII is the section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of gender.

  • More feminism

    The Supreme Court establishes the right of married couples to use contraception.

  • middle fininism

    In 1966, the National Organization for Women (NOW), formed and proceeded to set an agenda for the feminist movement.

  • Feminism

    1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs an executive order prohibiting sex discrimination by government contractors and requiring affirmative action plans for hiring women.

  • middle feminism

    1969 – California adopts the nation's first "no fault" divorce law, allowing divorce by mutual consent.

  • Feminism

    Title IX of the Education Amendments prohibits sex discrimination in all aspects of education programs that receive federal support.

  • middle feminism

    Pentagon decision restricting women from combat roles.

  • late feminism

    The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act allows victims, usually women, of pay discrimination to file a complaint with the government against their employer within 180 days of their last paycheck.

  • early feminism

    The Paycheck Fairness Act, meant to fight gender discrimination in the workplace, fails in the Senate on a party-line vote. Two years later, Republicans filibuster the bill (twice).

  • middle feminism

    The ban against women in military combat positions is removed, overturning a

  • middle feminism

    The Supreme Court strikes down onerous abortion clinic regulations that were forcing women's clinics to close.

  • feminism

    Congress has a record number of women, with 104 female House members and 21 female Senators, including the chamber's first Latina, Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.