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Gloria Steinem
Social activist, write, editor and lectuarer. She used the media to influence the voices of the womens rights movent. She worked to promote equal rights for women by working on the equal rights amendment, Womens Action Allience, and Womens strike for equality.
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Equal Pay Act
Prohibits discrimination in wages for people of different sex. Caused because the women were getting paid much less for doing the same as the men.
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/epa.cfm -
Civil Rights Act
Outlawed any discrimination against any minority groups. Ended unequal voting, segregation in schools and in the work place.
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ERA
Designed to garuntee equal rights for women. Passed the House and Senate but failed to recive redification from the states. http://www.enotes.com/1970-law-justice-american-decades/equal-rights-amendment -
Title IX of the Education Amendments
Everyone is allowed to participate in education programs, no matter the race or gender.
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/regs/statutes/titleix.htm -
Roe versus Wade
Was about the issue of abortion. Support for the womens right to have an abortion.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0410_0113_ZS.html -
Accomplishments of the Women's Rights Movement
-Opened higher education for women
-Better job opportunites (medicine)
-Women came together in order to try to stop discrimnation of all types
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Struggles for Women Today
-Today there is still a hidden bias with women in the workplace and other places. Employers are more likely to hire a man because of this bias.
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4975
