PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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obtaining the right to vote for women
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guaranteeing women equal pay for equal work
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enabling women to stay at home as well as work
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laws that would allow women to own property
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Detailed explanation-1: -The goals of the movement were to fight for greater equality in education, the workplace, personal finance, reproductive rights, and conceptions of the role of women.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gradually, Americans came to accept some of the basic goals of the Sixties feminists: equal pay for equal work, an end to domestic violence, curtailment of severe limits on women in managerial jobs, an end to sexual harassment, and sharing of responsibility for housework and child rearing. .
Detailed explanation-3: -Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution.
Detailed explanation-4: -Find out how the Women’s Liberation Movement fought for equal pay, access to training, equality in religious institutions, and recognition of work carried out by women.
Detailed explanation-5: -In the decades during which the women’s liberation movement flourished, liberationists successfully changed how women were perceived in their cultures, redefined the socio-economic and the political roles of women in society, and transformed mainstream society.