Examine the position of women in the 1960s
and 70s
What do we already know?
, Significant developments
1960s Legalisation of the Contraception Pill
1963 Equal Pay Act
1964 Civil Rights Act included Chapter VII
outlawing gender discrimination
, 1963 Publication of The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
3 million Americans bought this book
Friedan became very much the voice of Second
Wave Feminism or The Women´s Liberation
Movement
and 70s
What do we already know?
, Significant developments
1960s Legalisation of the Contraception Pill
1963 Equal Pay Act
1964 Civil Rights Act included Chapter VII
outlawing gender discrimination
, 1963 Publication of The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
3 million Americans bought this book
Friedan became very much the voice of Second
Wave Feminism or The Women´s Liberation
Movement