feminism/activism

• NOW was founded in 1966 to promote equal opportunities for women, including reproductive freedom, equal pay and equal education.
• 1963 - Betty Friedan publishes 'The Feminine Mystique' which argues that the ideal housewife is an illusion
• when was the WCTU founded?


  1874
• how many states was the WCTU in by 1880?


  24
• when and who established 'full house'

  Jane Adams in 1889 - campaigned in chicago about social issues
• when was the national consumers league established?


  1899
• what did the national consumers league do?


  it campaigned for higher wages for women
• when was prohibition passed?


  1917