Equal Rights In The 1960's

During the 1960’s, women represented about forty percent of America’s labor force. Women have typically received a median average wage three-fifths that of a male’s earnings. In the 1960’s, people justified paying women a lower wage using the excuse that a male’s societal role, as the main breadwinner, entitled him to a higher pay than a woman. Even if a woman and a man were performing the same job, a man would get paid higher simply because of his gender. Women began to realize the wage gender inequality, and began fighting for equal rights.

An important federal employment law that all employees and employers should be aware of is the Equal Pay Act of 1963. As conversed in week nine of class discussion and video lecture, the Equal Pay Act of 1963 ends wage disparity based on sex. The main goal of this act was to ban discrimination in wages, benefits, and pensions based the gender of an employee in any place of employment. Women traditionally earned less than men for doing similar work. The United States has had a long history of knowledge of unequal pay between men and women, but it was not until around World War II that the problem arose and women started fighting for their rights on this issue. Women have tried passing several bills to help close this pay gap throughout the 1950’s, but ended up in failure.

As you know many things have changed since the 1960s and 1970s. For instance, women’s rights. Women rights have come a long way in education, work, family life, politics, and sports. But I am writing to remind you the importance in women’s work force. Women have always in a general manner…been under appreciated. It seemed however that sometimes needs made men realize or potential. You see during world war 2, nearly all women worked…this was directly related to the fact that men where away at war. Women worked both hard labor, and intelligent jobs. After they returned; women gave up their jobs and let men take over. Most women enjoyed the thought of a house life, but I don’t think most knew exactly what they were getting themselves into. Women

Due to the heightening tensions within the ideas of equality, a fire was ignited and a rebellion had begun. Many argued about the inequality of women and slaves. The arguments came from the disproportion in wealth, the beliefs from christianity and the changing ideas of republicanism. These ideas and thoughts have been spread through many public speakers and writers throughout the 1840’s-1860’s. These speakers included: Frederick Douglass, David Walker, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, the authors of Mechanics' Union Preamble and the Ten-Hour Circular. All of these authors ideas curved together at a crucial time in history.

The Equal Rights Amendment was created to give equal rights to both female and male because they weren’t getting treated equally. Women didn’t have the same rights as males, one of them was voting and during that time it was a really big problem in the U.S. Also, because there was so much sex discrimination like females weren’t getting the respect they should and they would treat them so bad, because women couldn’t vote, own

Women have been discriminated against throughout the history of the United States. Women were typically associated with being “mothers” and having to take care of the children along with other so called home “duties.” They were not allowed to vote until fairly recently. Astonishingly, women in the United States were not allowed to have their own bank account before 1974. There is no reasonable excuse for such restrictions, except to keep women under the control of men. Altogether, the United States’ has a history of discriminating against women. Women have historically been treated as second class citizens, especially in the workplace, which kept them from doing certain jobs that were meant for men. The reality is that women have proven more than capable of doing labor intensive work. World War II proved that women were more than capable of replacing men. Women’s rights in the United States have definitely been improved, but they continue to be discriminated against in the workplace.

This is topic is relevant to all of us because on June 10, 1963, Present John Kennedy signed historic, landmark legislation to guarantee equal pay for women and men who held the same job. The equal pay act changed the legal landscape for working women and laid a firm foundation for the beginning of their movement into the paid labor force. At the signing ceremony for the equal pay act on June 10, 1963, special recognition was given to women leader. But despite this whole ordeal; today in 2017 we still face this same unequal pay

As part of the larger movement for equal rights, this feminist mobilization focused on a broad spectrum of economic, political, and cultural dimensions of the distribution of power that entailed the discrimination of women. Political struggles targeted the stigmatization of women as caregivers and the devalorization of this role in relation to that of the male breadwinner, a mainstream culture of sexism permeating all spheres of life and cutting across income and educational levels, as well as women’s unequal access to and unequal positioning within the labor market. (Azmanova 751)

I found it extremely interesting that most of the individuals that fought for black rights in the 50's were veterans who thought coming back from the war they would find less discrimination back home but that was not the case. Many soldiers that they had taken a step back coming home from the war and being segregated again after the autonomy they had during the war. Groups assembled in order to readdress and fight against the Jim Crow laws you talked about that reinforced discrimination. The South pressed for the right to vote while the North focused on equality of opportunity. Equality of opportunity meant eliminating discrimination in the job market, institution, and housing for example in order for them to prosper.The right to vote for

Between the years of 1972 and 1982, women and other supporters were fighting one of many fights for the Equal Rights Amendment. “Women and supporters lobbied, marched, rallied, petitioned, picketed, went on hunger strikes, as well as, committed acts of civil disobedience.” One of the very first problems for advocacy was the significant difference of equality for men and women. In this time of history, the Constitution only granted rights to the individuals who had all the power of decision-making and influence: white males. Social traditions and ideas of common law were defined for women from an English influence. With English tradition as the biggest influence, many women were denied many legal rights. Some of these rights included: denied

Equality, the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities. Well that's the definition in this era. However, in the 1860 - 1970’s their definition of equality was completely different and based on race and gender. Has equality improved? In my opinion, it could be better. We as the human race have not fully evolved from being the racist and sexist people we were then. Sure, there are still problems with discrimination but at least there aren't riots occurring everyday and vast amounts of people dying each week. Due to the growth of civil rights, there is more possibilities but with the growth of civil rights comes the growth of opinions. People all over the world develop opinions on topics that may be different to others

With the rise of the modern age economic survival has become difficult for families based on a single income. This economic need along with modern attitudes toward gender equality has resulted in women being represented in the workforce in greater numbers. However, until the 1960’s women faced severe discrimination when trying to enter and maintain a position in the workforce. Often qualified women would be passed over for men with less experience and education. Employers were fearful that women were too emotional and were not equipped to handle the stress of the work environment. Also driving the decision to not hire or promote women was the concern over the additional health care expenses and leave time pregnant

Women’s Rights and Feminism In the 1960’s and 1970’s, women were very active in their fight for rights. There were strong acts of feminism and many activists. They sprung into action, and began fighting for equality with men. Many laws were passed, many organizations created, and many protests broke out.

One of the most significant movements for equal rights was the equal rights for African Americans, Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the activist leaders in helping speak out for african american rights. He organized marches, sit-ins, any way to protest while

Women fought very hard for their rights in the workplace. Some of them, including Susan B Anthony, went above and beyond the norm. Yet, today our rights are still not the same as a man’s. At one point women weren’t allowed to work at all, and today they are allowed to have jobs while still being home makers. Although improvements have been made, there are still several dilemmas that need to be addressed. A women earns less than a man when doing the same work, and that is extremely unfair. Another issue in the workplace is that men underestimate women due to lack of strength and discrimination. There are also the issues of pregnancy and sexual