Women's Right Movement

Question 1

Nineteenth Amendment

Answer 1

-1920 suffrage won ratification which, guaranteed political rights to women everywhwere

Question 2

Equal Pay Act

Answer 2

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• Late 1963, the Kennedy administration helped pass the Equal Pay Act which, blocked the practice of paying women less than men for equal work
• Civil Right’s Act- extended to women many legal protections as African Americans did

Question 3

Women’s Liberation

Answer 3

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• 1960’s new & more radical feminist demands were approaching
• They were more involved: civil rights movement, antiwar crusade, they faced discrimination from male leaders
• By the 1970’s significant change was visible in women’s movement
• New books by younger feminist, said for womwn to band together assault the male power
• Early 70’s a great number of women began organizing against oppression and developing a culture of their own

Question 4

Affirmative Action

Answer 4

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• 1971 gov. extended its affirmative action guidelines to include women
• Meantime women were making large progress in getting into the economic and political movement
• Major all-male institutions also began opening doors to women

Question 5

Women’s Suffrage to Abortions

Answer 5

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• women’s movement wanted to legalize abortion
• 1965 court recognized Griswold v. Connecticut, they abolished all laws prohibiting abortion during the “first trimester”
• In 1973, Supreme Court made a decision in Roe v. Wade based on “right to privacy