Women (1945-75)

Question 1

what was NOW (national organisation of women)?

Answer 1

• created by white middle class women to end discrimination
• 40k embers by early 70’s
• got $300 mill from court in unequal pay (66-71)

Question 2

what was women liberation movement?

Answer 2

• more radical than NOW
• extremists wanted nothing to do with men like in politics or the media
• protested Miss America beauty pageant in q958
• did more harm as things like bribing bras meant they weren’t taken seriously (distracted from key issues like equal pay)

Question 3

who was Betty Friedan?

Answer 3

• wrote “feminist mystique” in 1963
• said there was more to life than being wife and mother
• created NOW in 1966

Question 4

what was the birth control movement?

Answer 4

• sanger opened first clinic and 100 women came on first day
• closed down so she opened a new Clinic and smuggled pills from Europe
• the pill began in the 60’s and was one of the biggest changes to society

Question 5

when and what was the legalisation of abortion case?

Answer 5

• 1973 with the “roe v wade” case

- terms of this depended on each state as most had a cut of point and required counselling before hand

Question 6

when was the equal pay act?

Answer 6

1963