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Main leader
Gloria
-Founded Ms. Magazine
-Journalist
-Political Activist
-Supporter of Women's rights liberation
-Went to an all girls college
-Got pregnant in college but had an abortion
-Wanted equality for women
-Grandmother was the president of Ohio's Woman's suffrage association -
Equal Pay Act
Equal pay act
- Prohibited sex discrimination in work place
- Equal pay for equal work
- No labor organizations against this act
-No more unpaid overtime
-Equal work time -
Civil Rights Act-Title VII
Civil Rights Act
-Prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin
-Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act partially based off of this
-Federal departments are responsible for carrying out this Act
-No discrimination while receiving Federal Finance Assistance
-Prohibits discrimination by employers
-Prohibits discrimination while pregnant and working -
Equal Rights Amendment Passes the house
ERA
-Martha Griffiths helped it to pass
-the senate wanted to add provisions which caused the delay of the amendment passing
-no discrimination
-Congress can enforce this Amendment
-two years later it has it's next accomplishment -
Equal Rights Amendment passes the Senate
passed the senate
-2 years after the house, the senate passed it
-banning discrimination based on sex
-the amendment was then sent to the states for ratification
-Allows for 7 years for states to ratify -
Title IX
-Gender should not limit anything
-Birch Bayh
-Female athletics
-Suscessful outcome -
Roe vs. Wade
Roe versus Wade
-decision on whether to make abortion leagl or illegal
-a case protecting the rights of prenatal life and women's health
- Settled on January 22, 1973, with a 7-to-2 majority vote in favor of Roe (abortion)
-ruling: women have the right to choose an abortion only during the first three months of her pregnancy
-Issue still divides america today -
States fail to approve Equal Rights Amendment
Ratification
-Deadline for ratification extended 5 more years (1982)
-35 States ratified ERA
-3 states short of 3/4 ratification rule
-Amendment failed
-Controversy of the failing amendment still occurs today -
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Lilly Ledbetter
-Ledbetter V. Goodyear Tire and rubber company led to this act
- Goodyear paid women less
-.77:1 pay for women and men
-Still sexism for women
-Sexism and racism exists for women of color
- Non-white women receive even lesser pay
-President Obama signed this act
-Act to reassure no discrimination with pay -
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
-Changed the woman's normal way of thinking "the female doesn't really expect a lot from life"
-National Organization for Women (NOW)
-Debated wider ranges of topics
-Positively affected other civil rights movements
-Many women's rights books were published -
