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Women’s
Liberation
Movement
Tiffany
Destiny
Natalie
Alexis
Emergence of the Women’s Liberation Movement
❖ Feminist Movement
❖ Most women had roles as
housewives
❖ Media strongly reinforced the
stereotype of housewives.
❖ They used Civil Rights
Movement technique
Strikes & Boycotts
❖ They could now be allowed to
vote,but they strived to have
both social and economic
Emergence of the Women’s Liberation Movement
★ Sex education begun to be
taught in schools, birth
control pills, Many women were
tired of seen as “sex objects”
★ Margaret Mead: Anthropologist
saw the women’s low status
★ The founders of Ms. Magazine,
Betty Friedan & Gloria Steinem,
were committed to write about
women’s viewpoints.
The Feminine Mystique by: Betty Friedan
● Excerpt: “Experts told them how to catch a man and keep him, how
breastfeed children and handle their toilet training… how to dress,
look, and act more feminine and make marriage more exciting… They
were taught to pity the neurotic unfeminine, unhappy women who wanted
to be poets or physicists or presidents. They learned that truly
feminine women do not want careers, higher education, political
rights- the independence...opportunities that the old- fashioned
feminists fought for.
● Summary: The author, Betty Friedan, gave not only women but men, of
this life changing time an insight to what was becoming of the U.S.
women, especially in the suburban area. Scientist were making a
“rulebook” on how women should be feminine.
Women Artist of the 60’s
Aretha Franklin
Lesley Gore
Tina Turner
1972-Title IX
Applies to both
genders, Female &
Male
More females
attend college,
Today because of
the Title IX
NO sex
discrimination in
education
TITLE
IX
Guarantees Girls
same opportunity as
BOYS in school
Incentive for school
that promoted
equality
Schools have procedure
to help sexually
discriminated victims
Schools CANNOT
discourage one from
continuing their
education
Gender equality in
sports; Girls could be
varsity teams
Part of the
Educational
Amendments Act
Civil Rights Law
TITLE IX