Second Wave Women's Rights Movement (post 1945)

By maddieboyer

  • Equal Pay Act

    Equal Pay Act
    Congress passed the Equal Pay Act as an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. This was a law that aimed to abolish wage disparity based on gender. As a result, women's salaries vs mens have dramatically risen since the Equal Pay Act has been enacted.

  • Betty Friedan's book "Feminine Mystique" is published

    The second wave women's rights activity began in the early 1960s and lasted through the 1980s. Betty Friedan's book, "Feminine Mystique" is largely responsible for the second wave feminist movement. Friedan was a housewife and mother with a long history of political activism who explained womens' dissatisfaction with their sexist roles as mother and wife. She did not blame women for adapting to the role, instead, she made society responsible for creating it.

  • Civil Rights Act- Title VII

    Civil Rights Act- Title VII
    This act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.

  • Civil Rights Act- Title VII

    Civil Rights Act- Title VII
    Was a piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public ("public accommodations").

  • Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

    Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
    ERA was a proposed amendment to the Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women.

  • Roe vs. Wade

    Roe vs. Wade
    The Supreme Court ruled that abortion was legal.

  • Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972

    Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
    An amendment making it illegal to deny, exclude or discriminate against someone (on the basis of their sex) under any education program or activity that gets financial assistance. http://www.dol.gov/oasam/regs/statutes/titleix.htm

  • Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

    Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
    The first bill signed into law by President Barack Obama on January 29, 2009. The Act amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The new act states that the 180-day statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay lawsuit regarding pay discrimination resets with each new paycheck affected by that discriminatory action.