WGS 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: The Feminine Mystique, Equal Rights Amendment, Civil Rights Act Of 1964

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Second wave feminism why did it happen: the civil rights movement, kennedy administration (presidential commission on status of women, feminine mystique, the pill. By the seventies women where more sexualized than they where in previous times. A lot of college age women got political experience in the civil rights. Politics: presidential commission on the status of women, kennedy was elected he was a democrat, results: Not a new idea had bee proposed to since 1945. It left large groups of women uncovered domestic servants (maids, nannies, etc. Presidential order requiring civil service to hire only based on merit. Many states actually sent out their own commissions in response to this. Did not endorse and equal rights amendment was written in the 1920s and had been constantly brought to congress for many years until it was passed. Emphasis on separate spheres for men and women (men go out to work, while women stay home)

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