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Kate Millet
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- writer, artist, feminist
- The Politics of Sex
- English major at U of M, graduate degree at Oxford
- 1970 cover of Time magazine
- Speaker at Int. Women's Day Rally in Iran 1979 -
Equal Pay Act
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- prohibited employees from discriminated against women in regards to wages. Men and women with the same credentials and similar effort and skill exerted must be paid equally.
- gave women more opportunity in the workforce
- prior to this act, women were consistently being paid less than men for the same work.
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Civil Rights Act- Title VII
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- prohibits businesses from discriminating against any employee based on their gender, race, religon, or nationality
- "sex" was added as a component of the bill at the last minute... before, the bill only prohibited discrimination based on race, religon, and nationalilty
- gave women more opportunity to excel in the workforce that was previously made up of almost exclusively men -
Equal Rights Amendment passes the House
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- calls for sexual equality
- first suggested by the National Women's political party in 1923
- passed the House 2/3 -
Equal Rights Amendment passes Senate
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- Equal Rights Amendment was passed by the Senate and sent to the states! One step closer to passing! Yay!
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Title IX of the Education Amendements of 1972
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- Title IX of the Education Amendements boycott sex bais in schools that get federal support.
- Helped increase the total of women in energetic business and experinced schools -
Equal Rights Amendment not approved by states
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- 31 states ratified the amendment. 38 states are needed to ratify.
- sexual equality (except for voting) is not protected by the US Constitution.
- Improvements have since been made to protect women's rights -
Roe versus Wade
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- The Supreme Court proclaims that the Constitution assures women's right to abolish an early fertilization, which makes abortion legal.
- Allowed womens with a doctor, could pick abortion in prior months of pregnacy without legal regulation
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Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
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- Obama's 1st piece of legislation
- overturned Supreme Court's original decision in 2007 in the case of Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc. (originally Goodyear won 5-4)
- Lilly Ledbetter accused Goodyear of discriminating against her because of her gender through unmerited poor performance reviews and unfair wages
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Major Accomplishment
Link1969 - The National Women’s Hall of Fame is created in Seneca Falls, New York.
1978 - The Pregnancy Discrimination Act is formed banning employment discrimination against pregnant women.
1981 - Congress passes a resolution making Women’s History Week a National celebration.
1987 - Women’s History Week is expanded to the full month of March.
1994 - The Violence Against Women Act tightens -
Problems or goals of Women's Rights Movement
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- Equality legislation
- Better Jobs
- Right to serve in government
- Right to good education
