PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE WOMENS MOVEMENT
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She thought it was good for women.
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She thought it was bad for women.
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She didn’t think it would accomplish what the creators of it thought it would.
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None of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -This analysis asserts that Schlafly denounced the amendment because she believed it would attack the rights of housewives, give the federal government excessive power, and hurt women already equal before the law in the ways that mattered.
Detailed explanation-2: -Such measures, Schlafly claimed, were hidden underneath the ostensibly straightforward text of the amendment itself, at the core of which was the following: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Phyllis Schlafly was perhaps the most visible opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment. Her “Stop ERA” campaign hinged on the belief that the ERA would eliminate laws designed to protect women and led to the eventual defeat of the amendment.
Detailed explanation-4: -Phyllis Schlafly led an energetic-and effective-opposition to the ERA. But as the proposed amendment finally broke through, a potent anti-ERA movement was brewing. In the fall of 1972, Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative political activist, began to organize a resistance to the amendment.
Detailed explanation-5: -Schlafly rejected the 70s and 80s-era feminist “rejection of the family” as an outdated establishment, which she believed “flies in the face of all human experience"; instead, she believed that “the family is the proven best way for men and women to live together on this earth.