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Women In The 1960s

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The Feminist Movement 1960s

Imagine, you are living in the 1960s as a female. You want to go live your life, you do not want to be stuck in a house with children all day long, but you can not go get a job because you are a woman. You can not go and vote because you are a woman, we could not do much because we are women. Feminism, the Equal Pay Act, and the National Organization of Women (NOW) are all part of why we have freedom today as women in our nation.

To begin with, Feminism was pretty bold back in the 60s and it still is. Women tend to be very defensive about being female because the male species does not understand what women went through then and now. We were treated like, "beauty objects or sex objects" (Sawhney). Alice Echols stated in her book Nothing Distant About It, "In 1968, 100 women protested the Miss America Beauty Pageant because it promoted physical attractiveness and charm as the primary measures of a woman's worth, especially the swimsuit portion of the contest" (149). The point is that if there were not feminists to argue back at men about how to treat a women then they would continue to believe that it is ok. That is why feminism is a big part of the Feminist Movement, but another big part was the Equal Pay Act. …show more content…

To help support The Equal Pay Act, President Johnson in 1964 signed The Civil Rights Act. Also to appoint the Civil Rights 1965 the EEOC was created to enforce the Civil Rights Act. "This; however, was not the case. Women were not treated fairly in the workplace and the EEOC was unable to enforce the Civil Rights Act" (Sink). Soon the NOW (National Organization for Women) was

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