Feminism Second Wave

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    2nd Wave of Feminism

  • Commission on the Status of Women

    President’s Commission on the Status of Women is formed by John F. Kennedy with Eleanor Roosevelt as chair.

  • Women Strike Marches

    Fifty thousand women in sixty cities, mobilized by Women Strike for Peace, protest above ground testing of nuclear bombs and tainted milk.

  • NOW

    National Organization for Women (NOW) is organized.

  • Executive Order 11375

    LBJ signs Executive Order 11375 forbidding sex discrimination in businesses working with the government

  • "Womens Strike Day"

    Tens of thousands of women across the U.S. participate in the "A Women’s Strike Day" to demand equality.

  • Universities and Colleges

    Over one thousand colleges and universities offer women's studies courses and eighty have full programs

  • Marital rape laws

    The first marital rape law is enacted in Nebraska, making it illegal for a husband to rape his wife.

  • First Female Pilots

    The Air Force graduates its first women pilots.