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Civil Rights act https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/civil-rights-act
- the EEOC enforces laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or age in hiring, promoting, firing, setting wages, testing, training, apprenticeship, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Race, color, sex, creed, and age are now protected classes. The proposal to add each group to protected-class status unleashed furious debate. But no words stimulate the passion of the debate more than "affirmative action."
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Women's rights activist http://www.biography.com/people/betty-friedan-9302633
-Started a writing career and worked for a news company the helped her with the “NOW” program.
-Betty Friedan was an activist in the women’s movement.
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ERA http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/
-After the 19th Amendment affirming women’s right to vote was ratified in 1920, suffragist leader Alice Paul introduced the ERA in 1923 as the next step in bringing "equal justice under law" to all citizens.
-In 1972, the ERA was finally passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification. The original seven-year time limit was extended by Congress to June 30, 1982, but at that deadline, the ERA had been ratified by only 35 states. -
Education Amendments https://www.justice.gov/crt/overview-title-ix-education-amendments-1972-20-usc-1681-et-seq
-avoid the use of federal money to support sex discrimination in education programs and to provide individual citizens effective protection against those practices. -
Equal Pay Act http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/equal-pay-act-women-30153.html
-The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender paygap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program. -
Problems faced today
Although there has been many accomplishments, women still face many prejudice today. They face problems such as job inequality, sexism, and even unequal prices between women and men products. -
Major Accomplishments
Women in the past 50 years have come a long way. They have gained their voting rights, proved to us men, that they can do the same jobs that we can, and the right to abortion under Roe v. Wade.
