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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]
May 4, 1970. In this widely circulated version of the photo, a fencepost behind Vecchio has been airbrushed out. On May 4, 1970, Vecchio was at Kent State University in northern Ohio. On April 30, President Richard Nixon had announced a U.S. invasion of Cambodia and students were having an anti-war protest. As she walked towards a field on ...
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 ...
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 ...
8 March 1979 protest in Tehran 8 March 1979 protest in Tehran. On International Women's Day on March 8, 1979, a women's march took place in Tehran in Iran.The march was originally intended to celebrate the International Women's Day, but transformed into massive protests against the changes taking place in women's rights during the Iranian revolution, specifically the introduction of mandatory ...
1970s Yale was place of expanding diversity. That came to a head with the trial of Black Panthers Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale. War protests, Black Panther Party: Yale alums reflect on Black ...
A group of women's pro-peace organizations, including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Women Strike for Peace, joined as to confront Congress on its opening day, January 15, 1968, with a strong show of female opposition to the Vietnam War." [9] At age 87, Jeannette Rankin led the march of some 5,000 women. [10]