In the 1950’s women were mainly housewives with an exception of a few women who worked in the factories. Women would mainly clean and cook all day while the husband went out and worked. Women were really not supposed to work and would not be hired for a job over a man. If a women worked, she was paid far less than a man. Women were to go to college to get an education in teaching and hopefully find their husband at college and settle down and create a family shortly after. Women were being treated like slaves and were actually miserable. They wanted to have their own time and show their true feelings, but they couldn’t because they always had to be happy when their husband came home from work.
In the 1960’s women started to stand up for themselves and fight back about gender discrimination and more. Women wanted equal pay for work, an end to domestic violence, sexual harassment, and a share in duties around the household. In 1963 a book was published called Feminine Mystique and this book sold tons of copies and
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Their goal was to stop women from being oppressed and men from having so much power. Men would whistle at the women and talk about the way they were dressed and women were fed up with it, so they did the same thing to men and saw how uncomfortable the men were about it, so they kept going. On September 7th 1968 the group went to the Atlantic City boardwalk and protested the Miss America pageant, they said it would showcase women as meat. They made a “Freedom Trash Can” on the boardwalk and would throw anything that was a part of being a women. They threw away high heels, curlers, bras, and more. On March 18, 1970 they went to a magazine company, which made the Ladies Magazine and they filed into the editor and chiefs office and demanded a whole issue on Feminism. It took 11 hours for them to reach a common ground and the conclusion they came up to was 8 pages on whatever they wanted in the