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Betty Friedan Born
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First Female senator in Maine
During her 1948 run, Smith was consistently attacked for being a women. When asked why should a women be sent to Washington if a men can do it, Smith answers "Women administer the home. They set the rules, enforce them, and mete out justice for violations. Thus, like Congress, they legislate; like the Executive, they administer; like the courts, they interpret the rules. It is an ideal experience for politics.” -
The Feminine Mystique
The feminine Mystique was released in 1963 by Betty Friedan. The novel changed the idea of women finding themselves despite their traditional roles in society and involvement with political issues. Betty is remembered as a pioneer of feminism and for her superior role in the women right's movement. -
Equal Pay Act
The Act states "No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex". To summarize women and men shall be paid the same for the same work performance. An employer may not pay a women less because of her sex. Today, even with the act still present, the wage gap is still existent. In 2016, for every dollar a men makes, a women makes 80.5 cents. -
Civil Rights of 1964
Federal Law that prohibits discriminating against employees based on sex, race, color, national origin, and religion. Applies to businesses with 15 or more employees, including federal state, and local government. also applies to private and public colleges and universities, employment agencies, and labor organizations. Although it was passed half a century ago, gender discrimination in the workplace is still pulsing. -
Nation Organization of Women created
The NOW is an organization that helps women gain full equality through education and legal actions. Betty Friedan was the founder of the organization. focus points:
- equal pay
- racial discrimination
- women's health/body image
- women with disabilities
- abortion rights Hundreds of chapters all over the US with hundred of thousands contributors.
The NOW has affected how women think of themselves and their roles in society. This organization still holds a major role in today's society. -
Equal rights amendment passes the house
The ERA passes in the house in 1970 but not in the Senate. ERA is then reworded which would later pass in the Senate in 1972. -
Equal Rights Amendment passes the senate
After being reworded from 1970, the Senate would pass the ERA in 1972. The passed Equal Rights Amendment read, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” -
Title IX of the Education Amendment
Primary objective is to avoid the use of federal money to support sex discrimination in education programs and to provide individual citizens effective protection against those practices. Secondary objective was to stop discrimination of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. -
States fail to approve the amendment
For an amendment to be ratified, 3/4 of the states need to sign off on it or agree to it. 35 states had ratified by the deadline, but the three states that were needed failed to accept it. Even though, the government had pushed back the decline, the three still continued to withhold from agreement. -
Roe Vs. Wade
The US Supreme Court legalizes a woman choice to have an abortion under the Fourteenth amendment. -
Betty Friedan Died
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Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
Lilly Ledbetter was one of the few female supervisors at the Goodyear plant in Gadsden, Alabama. She faced sexual harassment at the plant and was told by her boss that he didn’t think a woman should be working there. She would then find out about the income of three other male managers, and would later take this to court which become the Fair Pay Act. The main point of the Act is restoring the protection against pay discrimination.
