Movement for Women’s Rights

Amanda BrackbillAmy Martin

Vicki JohnsonLydia Rehrer

Women’s Rights – Why?

After World War II, many women were discontent with their standing in society

Feminism was a widespread value among women that they should have economic, political, and social equality with men

The largest source of discontent among women was in the workplace, where discrimination against women gave them smaller wages than men and lower positions. When a woman made a suggestion, it was usually ignored

Why? (cont.) Women decided to

get together to talk about what was happening to them, and realized that they were all experiencing the same thing. The result: the women’s rights movement

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Goals and Ambitions

1. A constitutional amendment that would give women equality with men, especially in the workplace

2. No more discrimination against women

3. The creation of childcare facilities for mothers who have jobs or seek to get them

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America’s Reaction

ERA (equal rights amendment) scared many people, but was passed by Congress. Phyllis Schlafly said that the ERA would lead to “a parade of horribles,” such as drafting women, end of laws protecting homemakers, end of husband’s responsibility to provide for family, and same-sex marriages.

Schlafly also said that the feminists “hate men, marriage, and children,” and were oppressed only by “their distorted minds”

In response to the women’s right movement, the pro-family movement was created, known as the New Right, to protect family values (pro-life, social, cultural, moral problems)

Feminists pushed for the right to get an abortion in Roe vs. Wade, but America was very divided on the issue, and still is today

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Accomplishments 1972 – Congress

passed a ban on gender discrimination

1973 – Supreme court ruled that women had the right to get an abortion within the first 3 months

Expanded the career options of women

Transformed the woman’s conventional roles and attitudes towards career and family

By 1983, women held 13.5% of elected state offices and 24 seats in US congress

Changes in New Era Women for the first time were considered

much closer to being equal to men then ever before

It transformed woman’s conventional roles and attributes toward career and family

It gave them more career opportunities and options

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