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Establishment of the President's Comission on the Status of Women
The first time since the suffrage amendment was passed that the federal goverment paid significant attention to women's issues. -
Publication of Betty Friedan's best seller The Feminine Mystique
Challenged the limitation of women to homemaking roles and launced the second "wave" of feminist activity. -
Susan Brownmiller organized a conference on rape
This was a milestion in active feminism. She also published a book "Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape" that made the importance of the issue of rape known. -
Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment
This amendment guarenteed equal rights for women. -
M. S. magazine began publication
M. S. magazine was a liberal feminist magazine. -
National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO)
Founded by Florynce Kennedy, Margaret Sloan, and Doris Wright. Addressed the double burden of sexism and racism faced by black women. -
First National Women's Conference was held in Houston, Texas
Represented the second wave of feminism. Feminism would be treated with new degree of seriousness and thought of not just as "women's rights" but relevant in reforming all areas of life. They also adopted a Plan of Action. -
Bullye Avery founded the National Black Women's Health Project
Established programs and services geared to improve the wellbeing of black women and helped women who are more prone to certain diseases. -
United Nations Decade for Women Conference in Nairobi, Kenya
Also called the World Conference to Review and Appriase the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women. Descrived as the "birth of global feminism", broke ground in declaring all issues to be women's issues. -
March for Women's Lives, Washington D.C.
From the day he took office, George W. Bush has treated women's rights as a bargaining tool, sacrificing women's lives and health the appease the radicals who put him in office. The march was to support the women he affected and was an overwhelming success.
