Women

• Women's Liberation Movement


  Social + political campaign advocating for women's rights, gender equality + liberation from patriarchal oppression
• Equal Pay Act


  1963
• Equal Pay Act


  Legislation aimed at abolishing wage disparities based on sex by requiring equal pay for equal work performed by men + women
• Frontiero v. Richardson


  1972
• Frontiero v. Richardson


  Supreme Court decision declaring that laws treating men + women differently based on gender must be subject to strict scrutiny, thereby extending the principle of equal protection under the law to gender-based discrimination cases
• Roe v. Wade


  1973
• Roe v. Wade


  Landmark Supreme Court decision legalising abortion nationwide by ruling that state laws prohibiting it violated a woman's right to privacy under the 14th Amendment
• Educational Amendment Act


  1973
• Educational Amendment Act


  Legislation prohibiting sex discrimination in educational institutions that receive federal funding, including protections against discrimination in admissions, hiring + program offerings
• Few women in positions of power
• New attitudes


  Reject housewife