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Phyllis Schlafly And The Civil Rights Act Summary

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A woman arrives into the bank. She has a purse on her shoulder and needs money to go shopping. She hopes that the bank will let her withdraw money from her husband 's credit card, but he isn’t with her because he has work and she knows the chances are slim. It has been a long day and she just wants to have dinner ready when her son returns from school. She walks up to the counter but when the clerk looks up, before she can even speak, he tells her that she must have her husband with her to withdraw any cash. According to Phyllis Schlafly, this is fine. A woman doesn’t need to be able to do anything by herself, women don’t even need or want to choose how to live their lives anyway. And why would they want the right to live an independent life when they can live for a man? Phyllis Schlafly almost stopped the Civil Rights Act because she felt just this way. …show more content…

And the way she felt revealed just how deeply embedded the patriarchal system was in America’s society, and, while probably not on purpose, brought to the surface the issues of how women had been

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