Providing a summarised and broad understanding of women's role in society in the 1960s and how their status progressed thanks to protests, feminism and ultimately legislation. Includes important statistics and specific feminist and anti-feminist movements.
Examine the position of women in the 1960s
and 70s
What do we already know?
, Significant developments
1960s Legalisation of the Contraception Pill
1963 Equal Pay Act
1964 Civil Rights Act included Chapter VII
outlawing gender discrimination
, 1963 Publication of The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
3 million Americans bought this book
Friedan became very much the voice of Second
Wave Feminism or The Women´s Liberation
Movement
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