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Betty Friedan
Accomplishments:- Born February 4 , 1921
-Leading figure in the women's movement
-Writer , Feminists and Women's rights activist
-Wrote "The Femine Mystique" (1963)
- 1st president of the foundation she Cofounded "The National Organization for Women"
-Helped changed outdated laws that were unfair to women -
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Women's Right's
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Equal Pay Act
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay ActEqual Pay Act of 1963-John F. Kennedy signs the Equal Pay Act into law. Almost four decades later on June 10 ,1963
-Requires that both genders be given equal pay for the same amount of equal work in same establishment
-Based upon skill, effort, responsibility, working conditions, and Establishment -
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights-July 2nd 1964
-Federal law that doesn't allow discrimination in employment
-Segregation and classification of workers
-Retaliation -
Women's Rights Accomplishments
Accomplishments-Fought for women's rights
-Got laws and amendments to be passed
-Women ble to Vote
-Women thriving in education
