What happen to women rights in 1960's and 1970's??

Question

modern women's liberation movement started in the late 1960's. why this movement happened in 1960's & 1970's rather then before?? what was it about the 1960's and 1970's that made further women's equality possible??

Answer 1

It was a time of change for many groups, especially Black and g*y rights. The women's movement jumped on the bandwagon and I guess the Blacks and g**s were too polite to tell them where to get off! In any case the feminists managed to get away with talking endless nonsense about the oppression of women and domestic 'slavery' etc and got waved through. It didn't help that many people were too stoned to think the whole thing through either, but we repent at our leisure.

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I think comparing women's issues to those of Blacks and g**s - groups that had serious legal and social issues to deal with - is pretty rich and not a little insulting to the Blacks and g**s.  Section 6 here briefly reevaluates the idea of the historical oppression of women http://www.freewebs.com/feminism-evaluat...

@ RoVale: I wasn't there but have heard this account from people who were. Its also pretty close to what Neil Lyndon describes in No More s*x War.

Answer 2

Doodlebug, that is totally wrong. All three were largely separate movements and nobody jumped on each other's bandwagon. It was about groups that have long been discriminated against in this society and yes, it does include women. Before the 1960s, women couldn't get credit in their own names or rent an apartment. They were severely restricted in their educational opportunities and career choices. Would you accept having to quit your job once you got married or became what is considered to be too old? Both were common practices at the time. How about domestic violence? It was considered a private family matter. What happened if your husband decided he didn't want to be married anymore and walked out on you? It was a very common practice. If you didn't have relatives you could move in with, social workers would come in and take your children away. Then the children would be split up and adopted out separately. The real point of the women's movement was to allow them to have choices in their lives and the same opportunities, which they didn't have before.

Answer 3

It began in the 60's and 70's about the same time as the civil rights movements. As African Americans took stand for equality and justice so did the women. During this time period you saw more and more women taking higher positions in the work industry. influential books were published (such as 'The Feminine Mystique' by Betty Friedan) The Government also passed the "Equal Pay Act" which made it illegal to pay a women less than a man for the same job. There were many events and people that in this time period that helped towards the movement.

Check this link for more info:

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstim...

Answer 4

In the 1960s and 1970s, there was a strong movement to petition the US Congress to pass an Ammendment to the Constitution that would require equal rights of men and women.

A large part of making this possible was commnication access (which is also why many other causes have since become mainstream) ,,, today, anyone can be a star on YouTube, buit at that time, television was carefully scripted and edited. Any information that you received was carefully regulated, In the 1960's this STARTED to change.

Additionally, US teenagers and young adults were starting to challenge the government of the US. They held protests and "sit-ins" to help voice their opinions. There was substantial mistrust in the national government, and particularly, choices related to the Vietnam war. News coverage, and the Hollywood, helped make protesting a "right" of Americans.

Sadly, the ERA (Equal Rights Ammendment) was never passed. The US will never move forward until everyone has a voice and the right to have that voice.

For the record, I am a middle aged (lived during the time that you are asking about), successful, white male.