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On the “Coat Tail” of the Civil Rights Movement

On the “Coat Tail” of the Civil Rights Movement. The second wave of the Feminist Movement to current day. In 2009, w omen made 80 % of men for same job. Birth Control. FDA approves “The Pill” in 1960 Protests across nation: Planned Promiscuity

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On the “Coat Tail” of the Civil Rights Movement

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  1. On the “Coat Tail” of the Civil Rights Movement

  2. The second wave of the Feminist Movement to current day In 2009, women made 80% of men for same job

  3. Birth Control • FDA approves “The Pill” in 1960 • Protests across nation: Planned Promiscuity • Mainly prescribed for married women • 1968 Pope banned contraceptive for Catholics • 1972 SC legalizes access to “Pill” for single women

  4. Is this all? Betty Friedan… “there’s more to life than being a wife/mom”

  5. Title VII of the CR Act of 1964 “It is unlawful for an employer to discriminate as to hiring, firing, compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EOEC) established

  6. When the EOEC failed to outlaw segregated help-wanted ads, feminists established NOW in 1966 to fight for their rights.

  7. 1968 Radicals Chant: NO MORE MISS AMERICA! The picketers tossed symbols of the beauty culture in a "freedom trash can” – bras, high heels, girdles, curlers, false eyelashes, etc.

  8. Equal Rights Amendment Section 1. Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex. Written by Alice Paul in 1921; passed Congress in 1972; ¾’s of states must ratify; only 35/38 did; so not added to Constitution.

  9. Gloria Steinem Ms. Magazine Advocates Feminism

  10. 1972 Title IX “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, . . .”

  11. Roe vs. Wade (1973) abortion legal in 1st trimester

  12. Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs – Battle of the Sexes - 1973

  13. 1981 - Sandra Day O’Connor First Female Supreme Court Justice • Sandra Day O’Connor- 1981

  14. First viable female candidate for VP 1984 1984 – VP Candidate

  15. Hilary Clinton 1st female presidential Candidate 2008

  16. Madeline Albright 1st Condoleezza Rice 2nd Hilary Clinton 3rd Female Secretaries of State (Foreign Affairs)

  17. 2007 First female Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

  18. Current Lawsuit Against Walmart • Class action lawsuit • 1 million women affected • Pay Discrimination: Equal Pay = Equal Work • Promotions: “Glass Ceiling” issues

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