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Women started to find ways to get some money when men went to war by making war supplies or even helping with the production of car machinery for vehicles -
women were starting to approach the idea of female freedom and female identity, the ideology started spreading
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Women began the first demand for protective laws and more power on decisions for society in the USA in a world fully controlled by men
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The Cold War was solidified by 1947–48, when U.S. aid had brought certain Western countries under American influence and the Soviets had established openly communist regimes. -
10% of all women in U.S were telephone operators, they began to have different ways to affect in society
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At the begining of the year around 10,000 women started finding jobs as secretaries, receptionists or department store clerkswhile men were dealing with the war. -
When WW2 began, women stepped into the civilian and military jobs they left behind. -
1959 January 1st: Fidel Castro wins power in Cuba, overthrowing the US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Fights about women’s labor shifted from protective laws to non-discrimination clauses. -
There were veterans of civil rights marches and anti-war protests of the 1960s with faith for a change but racism was getting to a harder situation
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During this time the TV became more popular so televised sitcoms and printed advertisements brought male presentators with a sexist point of view.
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On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. -
On Aug. 26, 1970, 50,000 feminists paraded down New York City’s Fifth Avenue with linked arms, blocking the major thoroughfare during rush hour fighting for equality between genders. -
- February 11th: The US, Soviet Union and 92 other nations sign the Seabed Treaty, banning the testing or deployment of nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.
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.In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in all fifty states.
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The laws were set up, allowing for state intervention in the second and third trimesters in abortion cases.
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Femministsworkforce a more hospitable space for women with policies banning sexual harassment, something the Equal Opportunity Commission recognized in 1980.
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The topic was really controversial and represed by the male society, protests during this year were getting more violently repressed by police and law. -
The Soviets had invaded Afghanistan, causing President Jimmy Carter to withdraw a strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT II) from Senate ratification, boycott the 1980 Olympics Games in Moscow, and ban U.S. grain sales to Moscow. -
Feminist ideas travelled from the US, to the UK and Europe becoming more globalized. -
Women began delaying marriage and children, pursuing higher education, joining the workforce, and assuming independence and identities outside of the home. -
Marriage age for women swung between 20 and 22, but in 1990, it nearly jumped to 24 -
In late 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed and 15 newly independent nations were born from its corpse, including a Russia with a democratically elected, anticommunist leader. The Cold War had come to an end -
married women surveyed in 1995 reported earning half or more of their total family income.
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married women surveyed in 1995 reported earning half or more of their total family income.