Women's Movement 1965

  I have decided to write about women as my group for this paper. Social Movements have impacted our society in many ways. The Women's Movement is a social movement for women and their rights. Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, civil rights demonstrators, as part of a major voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in protest of discriminatory voting practices. These rights were not only for the black community but for women too. Some of the goals in the feminist movement are simple: freedom, equal opportunity, and control of their lives.

  Women's' liberation during 1967-1980 had significant changes for women.  Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality (i.e. voting rights, property rights), second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, defacto inequalities, and official legal inequalities." Retrieved (2015 Boundless)

  A new feminist group formed in 1966 it is the National Organization for Women (NOW). The NOW's purpose  is "to take action" to achieve the equality of women. ( Johnson 2015)  There are key issues that NOW has been active in. Those issues are repeal of the abortion laws Roe verse Wade, the public funding of child care, and in 1978 they helped conceive and pass the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman candidate for vice president who was nominated by Walter Mondale, and he was endorsed by NOW. In the 1980's NOW started to become more active on issues of lesbian rights. These are just a few of the things that NOW helped in the equality of women.

  Women today now have many rights and we owe women feminist of the past generations a big thanks for fighting for these rights. We are now able to decided if we want to have a baby or not, and that includes aborting a baby at a certain stage of pregnancy. We now have the right to vote, and are able to run for president of the United States, something that most women thought would never happen. We are now able to hold down jobs that used to be consider just for men. Women have equal pay in most cases but there are still some work that has to be done to get to equal pay. Women are able to take a leave of absence after they give birth and be able to come back to the same position they held before the leave.  Women have come a long way over the generations and we still have a ways to go to achieve full equity for women.