AS level Civil rights in the USA - womens liberation

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Issues facing american women
Political rights,, economica, fundamentals female identity, - domestic and sexual relationships
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womens problems economic and solutions
employ opportunities, income and unpaid work - 1960 = 23mil to 1940 18mill 3/5ths not work - 30& married women 1960 - 57% of men wage man annual income - 27000, women - 15000 - 79% of america's unpaid work= CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL PAY ACT outlaw sex desc
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womens identity
womens identity defined by men - focus ids and husband FRIEDEN - further education and more work= ATKINSON - advocate homosexuality - physiological drag
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Gov action under K and J
Lobby gov k = presidential commission status of women - congressmen smith - ammend civil rights act to include sex descrim - but congress refuse - wage gap wider in 1969 than 1963 - made more radical not kennedy commision national organisation 4 wom
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Growth of feminism
SNCC CORE 1996 excludes turn to other issues-women key in civil rights ie robinson hamer inspired women politics. The new left SDS male dominated - Different goals and methods
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NOW - equal rights
1966 found frieden - equality for women, full involvement - equal rights ammendment - lobby J govleaders NOW well conected
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NOW victories
J exec order - outlaw sex descrim = The equal employment opportunity commision test case willing to ammendment J promised to appoint 50 women to top gov posts NOW to advice
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NOW use of protests
COURTS-weeks v southern bell-promote man but women better qualified Roberts chief lawyer took case the NOW triumphied but kids and husband humiliated - weeks set up a PRECEDENT other women to challenge. Inequalities criminal law 1966 jane daniel Mun
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Radical feminists
Were members of NOW but not radical enough millet left as unwilling to campaign lesbian rights - atkinson left formed (feminists) excluded men and married women - against **** + marriage, favour abortion - stormed new York registry office . (NYRW) sp
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NYRW
speakouts, rethink public meetings, protest against miss world pagent sed was a sex object - crowed a sheep
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How succesfull???
title V11 of civil rights act 1964 exec order sex equality in work - weeks v southern bell ensure justice - not an equal rights ammendment no better status after achiev - no legal relaxation of abortions , new york tightened - female seperatism unpop
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