Chapter 9: Feminism and Equal Rightsin the United States

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Chapter 9 Feminism and Equal Rightsin the United States
The Equal Pay Act and The FeminineMystique
The Battle over the ERA
The Supreme Court and AbortionRights
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Abstract

Despite the significant advancements made after the ratification in 1920 of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women theright to vote, society generally supported and maintained the patriarchal status quo. Gender equality was still far from achieved in areas such as employment, wages, education, and reproductive rights. Although there were challenges to broad societal views of the role of women, such as those made by Edith M. Stern (1901–1975), gaining sufficient political power to remove the institutionalized roadblocks to equality was a long, slow process.

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