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  2. Women's Strike for Equality - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Women's liberation movement in North America - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Women's liberation movement - Wikipedia

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    By the mid-1970s, the women's liberation movement had been effective in changing the worldwide perception of women, bringing sexism to light and moving reformists far to the left in their policy aims for women, [120] but in the haste to distance themselves from the more radical elements, liberal feminists attempted to erase their success and ...

  5. Women's liberation movement in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Though Austria was a conservative society, known as one of the most traditional in Western Europe, and has been characterized as having had no protests during the early 1970s when the Women's Liberation Movement was sweeping throughout the world, [1] the characterization belies that women came together and began writing about and analyzing the ...

  6. NY college protests helped shape anti-Vietnam War movement ...

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    NY's history of protests and activism spans from the American Revolution, women's suffrage and civil rights to anti-war movements across decades. ... Kent State shootings in 1960s, 1970.

  7. Second-wave feminism - Wikipedia

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    Feminist scholars, particularly those from the late 20th and early 21st centuries to the present day, have revisited diverse writings, [1] oral histories, artwork, and artifacts of women of color, working-class women, and lesbians during the early 1960s to the early 1980s to decenter what they view as the dominant historical narratives of the ...

  8. The history and meaning behind Women's History Month colors

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    Every March, we celebrate women's contributions to history and present-day society with Women’s History Month. “Feminists in the 1970s critiqued the exclusion and lack of recognition of women ...

  9. Counterculture of the 1960s - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1970s, there were large protests about a proposed nuclear power plant in Wyhl, Germany. The project was cancelled in 1975 and anti-nuclear success at Wyhl inspired opposition to nuclear power in other parts of Europe and North America. [134] Nuclear power became an issue of major public protest in the 1970s. [135]