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At the time of the protest, women still did not enjoy many of the same freedoms and rights as men. Despite the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibited pay discrimination between two people who performed the same job, women comparatively earned 59 cents for every dollar a man made for similar work. [4]
A week after the Kent State shootings, 100,000 demonstrators converged on Washington to protest the shootings and President Richard Nixon's incursion into Cambodia: 1970 – July 4 Honor America Day: A rally put together by supporters of President Nixon hosted by Bob Hope [12] 1970 – August 26 Women's Strike for Equality
John F. Kennedy's administration proposed the President's Commission on the Status of Women to address people who were concerned about women's status while avoiding alienating the Kennedy administration's labor base through support of the Equal Rights Amendment. At the time, labor, which had been important to Kennedy's victory, opposed ...
[7] [8] It describes how the women's movement linked to other movements in the United States such as the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, and the New Left. [9] Also featured in the documentary are the authors of the landmark feminist book Our Bodies, Ourselves and ex-members of the underground abortion organization the Jane ...
CBS was the first major network to cover women's liberation when it aired coverage on 15 January 1970 of the D.C. Women's Liberation group's disruption of Senate hearings on birth control as a small item in their broadcast. Within a week, the women's protests became leading stories on both CBS and ABC.
The shootings influences further anti-Vietnam War protests across college campuses, as well as at the White House, where 100,000 people protested on May 9, 1970. Victory Bell on Kent State campus ...
A postshared on social media purportedly shows a video of a liberal activist drinking canola oil in protest of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Verdict: False The video stems from an account that regularly ...
The historian Lisa Levenstein said that, in the late 1970s, the feminist movement briefly attempted a program to help older divorced and widowed women. [48] Many widows were ineligible for Social Security benefits, few divorcees received alimony , and, after a career as a housewife, few had any work skills with which to enter the labor force.