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Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Maria was theoretical physicist who was the second woman in history to win a nobel prize. She was the first woman to win a nobel prize in theoretical physics. She showed the world that women could do it too. -
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Freedom from Male Supremacy
During the Womans Liberation Movement, they fought for freedom from male suppremacy. -
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Greater Personal Freedom for Women
During the Womans Liberation Movement, they fought for greater personal freedom for women. -
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Womans Liberation Movement
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Betty Friedan
Betty was an author and activist for the Womans Liberation Movement in the 1960's. She wrote The Feminine Mystique wich is said to have sparked second wave feminism. -
Publication of the “American Woman” report in 1963.
The report criticized inequalities facing the American woman in a "free" society while acknowledging the importance of women's traditional gender roles. -
The 1966 forming of the the National Organization for Women.
This organization was formed by a group of activists that wanted to end sex discrimination on June 30, 1966. -
The 1967 Anti-abortion Motion
This organization is a group of people who shared the view that human life begins at conception and that the life of unborn children should be protected and still share that view today. -
Gloria Steinem
Gloria was an activist for the Womans Liberation Movement in the 1960's and 70's that helped women all around the world. She was a journalist, and social political activist that became a spokeswomen for the WLM, she was also a columnist for the New York Magazine. -
The First Demands of Justice
In 1970, The Womans Liberation Movement orginized 8 national conferences where the first demands were made(such as Equal pay, equal educational and job opportunities, free contraception and abortion on demand, free 24-hour nurseries, etc. -
Equitable Pay
From the effeorts of the Womans Liberation Movement, one of the things they accomplished was equitable pay for men and women. -
Reproductive Rights
From the effeorts of the Womans Liberation Movement, one of the things they accomplished was reproductive rights(such as fertility, contraception and abortion to the perceptions of women's bodies in society, etc.)
