WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

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WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT
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1840 World Anti-Slavery Conference

• Women see need for rights and plan meeting

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Quaker Lucretia Mott
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1858 Seneca Falls Convention

• met to demand rights and vote
• Declaration of Sentiments is created

We hold these truths to be self-evident that
all men and women are created equal Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments
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1920 19th Amendment passed

• Women can vote

Women Celebrating!
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1930s Great Depression

• Womens rights not a priority

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1940s WWII Rosie the Riveter

• Women working outside the home

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1950s Domestic Decade

• Women return to traditional roles

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1960s Decade of Protest

• Women see need for own equal rights

Women aiding Civil Rights and Vietnam protests.
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1961 Commission on Status of Women

• Established by President Kennedy

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1963 Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

• Womens Liberation bible

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1964 Civil Rights Act

• Title VII bars discrimination in employment

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1966 National Organization for Women (NOW) formed

• Concerned with rights of working women

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Late 1960s Radical feminists emerge

• Wanted womens liberation, not just equal
  rights

Women Protesting the 1968 Miss America Pageant
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1972 Title IX passed

• Public schools could not discriminate on the
• basis of gender

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1972 Equal Rights Amendment

• Passed in Congress but never ratified

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1973 Roe Vs. Wade

• Abortion is legal