AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Betty Friedan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Draft Evasion
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Commission on the status of women: established by jfk, a government commission that studied american law and how it was viewed different from women and men ex: social security, employment law. Equal opportunity for jobs, maternity leave for working woman. First person to complain about the civil rights movement were women, like airplane assistants. Roosevelt said you have to do a commission if you want my help in the democrat primary. National organization for women: 1966 cofounders: betty freidan, pauli moray pushed the government on the civil rights act, changes on marriage divorce and custody laws, and legal abortion throughout the usa. Working within the system, mainstream society, started to use the court system for change, ex. Women in the air force husband were not able to get benefits but other way around happened. Radical feminism: younger and more radical, had more activists experience. Women who already questioned, society needed to keep up with women.
