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Also Known As women’s liberation movement
Date c. 1960 - c. 1980

Did You Know?

  • Although the female employment rate had dropped following World War II, by 1954 more women were a part of the workforce than during the war.
  • Within five years of federal approval of oral contraceptives, about six million women were taking them.
  • In 1972 the first shelter for battered women opened, one of the goals of the women's movement.
  • The women's movement was so influential that in 1975 TIME awarded its "Man of the Year" award to "American women."

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Women's Strike Day, 1970
Betty Friedan
NOW: Rally for Women's Lives
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NOW demonstration for abortion rights
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Declaration of Sentiments
History of the feminist movement in 1970s West Germany
Carrie Chapman Catt on the fight for women's suffrage
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