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Betty Friedan
Betty conducted a survey of college-educated women and found that many were dissastisfied with their lives. Nearly all of the survey takers were Full-time homemakers. Text book -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
A movement to get rid of discrimination, ironically discriminates against women. The two female volunteers in 1964 of SNCC noted "Assumption of male superiority: was "as widespread and as crippling to women as the assumptions of white supremacy are to the Negro." -
Feminist Movement
The core belief of the womens liberation movement was feminism, the conviction that women and men should be socially, politically and econcmically equal. Text book -
National Organization for Women
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The Feminine Mystique
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Equal Rights Amendment
This proposed amendment to the constitution promised equal treatment for men and women in all spheres, not just emplyment. In 1978 NOW organized a march for ERA. Text book -
Phyllis Schlafly
One of the most outspoken critics of the ERA. She argueed that it would that this would take away any leagal protection all the women that already had without confrencing any new benefits. text book -
Roe v. Wade
The supreme court stuck down state laws that banned abortion in the landmark case Roe v Wade Text book
