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National Organization for Women is launched
In 1966, twenty eight women gathered together at a conference of commission on the status of women and formed the National Organization for Women, also known as NOW. The group gathered in hopes of eliminating discrimination in school, the workplace and the justice system.The group participates in anti-war marches, and national immigration rights marches. NOW is actively seen around the United States making a difference in how women across the country are treated. -
Title IX is Enacted
Title IX was enacted to offer equal education opportunities for male and female students. The law required gender equality to offer access to higher education, career education, educating pregnant and parenting students, no employment discrimination, offering an equal learning environment, offering equal math and science classes and opportunities, sexual harassment policies, and having equality during standardized testing. -
Video Relating to Title IX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFAs9fegJsI
This video explains what Title IX is exactly and what right we as Americans have because of the Title. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFAs9fegJsI
This interview with Billie Jean King, a major contributor for Title IX, explains the history of Title IX and how it still impacts life today. -
Roe v Wade
On January 22, 1973 the Roe v Wade landmark case was decided, the case was addressing the abortion laws in Texas, but the case resulted in affecting the entire United States. The case was focused on a pregnant woman, Roe, who knew abortions were not legal in her state unless the pregnancy was harming the mother, challenged her rights expressing that the abortion laws are interfering with her constitutional rights. -
Women Allowed in US Military Academies
On October 7, 1975 women are finally allowed to be trained and educated at military academies across the United States. 1976 was the first year that the academies accepted women into their academies and they had more than three hundred women enrolled in the academies. The women were enrolled at the US Military Academy, US Naval Academy, US Air Force Academy, and the US Coast Guard Academy. -
Video Relating to Women in Military Academies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BldUeDjAvqQ
This video takes a look into what time in a US military academy is like for a woman during their first week in the academy. -
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
The pregnancy discrimination act was passed to forbid sex discrimination based on pregnancy keeping women out of their work place. This includes, the pregnancy, childbirth and medical complications that are involved with said pregnancy. The act makes its illegal to fire, avoid hiring, denying promotions, denying training, not allowing health insurance or changing job assignments for a woman because of any stage of her pregnancy. -
Planned Parenthood v Casey
On June 29, 1992 the Planned Parenthood v Casey case was decided. The case, having connections to Roe v Wade was also fighting for abortion rights. The addition that Planned Parenthood v Casey had over Roe v Wade was that the state is now allowed to control some abortions. They now have certain rules that women must follow before being allowed to receive the abortion, if they are married they must prove that the have informed their husbands, minors must have permission, and more. -
Jackson v Birmingham Board of Education
On March 29, 2005 the Jackson v Birmingham Board of Education case was decided. The case was a violation of Title IX which was passed in 1972 to protect gender discrimination in work, sports and more.This case was brought to court by Roderick Jackson who was fired from coaching basketball teams at a high school. He went to court after being fired for complaining that the girls’ team had less funding than the boys and they were not given the same treatment the the boys’ received from the school. -
Video Relating to Women Allowed in Combat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buO27A5C4Vs
This video is the United States Defense Secretary, Ash Carter, announcing that women are finally allowed in all combat jobs. He explains the marines hesitation, and finishes by saying that women are allowed in any position, with no exceptions. -
Combat Jobs Open to Women
On January 2, 2016 combat jobs were finally open for all women to serve in. Before this, women were only allowed to serve in noncombat positions whether or not they were physically fit enough to serve in combat. The women will have to succeed in gender neutral performance standards to prove that the are strong enough and fit enough, just like the men have to prove the same. This change to our military will open up 220,000 jobs for women, which is 10% of all positions. -
Walmart Worker Fired for Pregnancy Complications
On March 10, 2016 a Walmart employee, Arleja Stevens, was fired after she missed work due to pregnancy complications. When she returned back to work after two days she received a verbal warning for missing two days, she showed her boss a doctor's note explaining why she was out of work, but that did not change much. She was later fired for missing too much work. This case is in clear violation of the pregnancy violation act that was passed in 1978. -
Gender Pay Gap in STEM Careers
Among most careers men on average make more money than women who are working in the same position as the men. In the first year after graduation, women are already making 31% less than the men in their same job with the same experience. We are able to observe that women with children are paid less than women without children and men with or without children. Women are only receiving about 79% of what men receive. -
Video Relating to Gender Pay Gap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9GqWoy6__s
This video is an analysis on the gender pay gap between men and women in the national soccer federation. It features Becky Sauerbrunn, Ali Krieger and Hope Solo, three women players on the team. They explain the major discrimination that they face on the soccer field.
