THE WOMEN’S LIBERATION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (ROMPI)

FEMINISM IN THE USA.

• It is the belief in the political, social, and economic equality of women.
• It concerns the issue of gender difference, equality for women and campaign for women's rights.
• Feminism can be divided into three waves:
1. First wave (19th-early 20th centuries)
2. Second wave (1960’s)
3. Third wave (1990’s)

THE SECOND WAVE FEMINISM:

 It refers to a period of feminist activity beginning in the early 1960s and lasting through the late 1980s.
 The main difference between the first and second-wave feminism is that the first wave focused on rights such as suffrage, whereas the second wave was largely concerned with other issues of equality, such as ending discrimination.

WOMEN'S LIBERATION IN THE USA:

 The phrase "Women’s Liberation" was first used in the United States in 1964.
 The membership in NOW (National Organization for Women), increased its numbers from 1,200 in 1967 to 48,000 in 1970.
 These large numbers of women, fought to improve many facets of society like:

 job inequalities
 public offices
 childcare
 Abortion
 the economic system
 Independence
 the media
 gender stereotypes
 sexist oppression

1968 BRA-BURNING EPISODE

 Protest against the Miss America contest.

 Historic changes in basic rights of women, in the home and in the workplace were effected in the aftermath. This came to be known as the Women's liberation movement.


WOMEN’S LIBERATION IN THE USA:

 Women in the movement, saw it as a chance to fight for what they believed in and in turn, change the boundaries of society to allow themselves, as women, to be free.
 Characterizing the women as "new and angry", men had a reaction to the Movement that was less than positive.
 Although many women had a positive and dedicated reaction to the Movement, there was still an overwhelming dissatisfaction.

ACHIEVEMENTS FOR WOMEN REGARDING:

 Abortion rights

 Childcare


 Workplace:
 National Credit Union Administration.
 President’s Commission on the Status of Women.(1961)
 The Equal Pay Act.
 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964)

BETTY FRIEDAN

 February 4, 1921 in Peoria, Illinois.
 “passion against injustice...originated from my feelings of the injustice of anti-Semitism”.

 The Feminine Mystique.(1963)

 ‘‘the problem that has no name’’

GLORIA STEINEM

 Born in Toledo, Ohio in March 25, 1934.

 An American feminist icon.

 She was known for several issues in which she participated, among these:

 Abortion
 Pornography
 Transsexualism