green and huang; Women's rights

Equal Right Amendent

Apr 23, 1920

Equal Right Admendament ( ERA ) is hold by some women that they try to have the equal right between men and women on all of the right in the U.S. in 1920~1972.
They will get toghter on the street and showing their opinion on their sight. They hoped to change the sisituation they had at the time period.
They wanted that women should had the right to voted, and women's payment from work should be lower than men's if they were doing the same jobs.
The ERA finally passed by Congress in 1972.

Beginning of Bigger Change

Apr 23, 1950

During America's conservative times women's influence remained in the home. Whent they tried to get jobs outside of the home they were low-paying jobs. These jobs were apart of the service industry with activites like retail or secretaries (pink collar jobs).

Women's Lib

Jan 1, 1964

During this year femenists wanted the Civil Rights Act to be passed. This specially targeted discrimination of women and gender in the workplace. For the time this movement did not have as much weight as femenists wanted.

NOW (National Organization for Women)

Jun 30, 1966

The NOW was founded on June 30, in 1966, in Washington, D.C., by 28 women.
NOW was created to give pressure on government and employers. They hoped to increased the rate of women in government, school, job and officers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Organization_for_Women

Roe vs Wade

Jan 22, 1973

Landmark case from the Supreme Court saying that a woman has the right to have an abortion. This decision took away state bans. Femenist and allies thought this was necessary for a woman to have a chose for a family.

Equal Rights Amendment

Jul 9, 1978

National Organization of Women marched for the enactment of Equal Rights Amendment. The bill was suppose to grant equal rights for women in all the different places and roles they chose to take. Over 100,000 people came to the march with NOW. The tradition nuclear family unit still remained in use with so much of America though that the bill did not get passed.

citations

Apr 30, 2015

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