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Birth Control was approved.
This gave women freedoms and less limits than before when there wasnt any birth control. 2.3 million women eventually was on birth control. -
President John Kennedy establishes the President's Commission on the Status of Women and appoints Eleanor Roosevelt as chairwoman.
Women finally had a chance for their voices to be heard legally. -
The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan publishes her highly influential book The Feminine Mystique. It was claimed to be about "the problem that had no name". This caused the second wave of feminism. -
The Equal Pay Act was legalized.
Equal pay is important to feminism,because it would be rare that a woman would be working an actual job where they get paid and not being in their own kitchen. So therefore those who worked an actual job should be paid in full. -
The Equal Employment Oppourtunity
This helped both race and sex get an equal chance at an job. This is important to women becasue just because doesnt mean they're womena, doesnt mean they cant get the job done. -
prohibiting the use of contraceptives by married couples
This effects women because they would have to be the one who gets the lower end of the bargin ( its not that low ). This wouldnt be fair. -
The National Organization for Women (NOW)
This is the largest women's rights group in the US. This gives women voice to communicate to others who dont understand. -
Dscrimination
Presiden Lyndon Johnson policy of 1965 was to make sure that anyone race or sex enjoys education and employment just as much as a white male. -
sex-segregation
It was ruled that sex-segregation ad's in the news papers are now illegal. This shouldve been illegal because why separate men and women just bacause of their sex. -
"no fault"
When couples got divorced in the past, it was only on the mans concent. This was the year that it allowed couples to divorece by mutual concent.
