Gender Equality In The 1960s And 1970's

Gender equality is not simply defined by the achievement of suffrage, as depicted in ‘Women’s Liberation March,’ which is an image photographed on the 26th of August, 1970; gender equality is the achievement of fair treatment from a professional, economic, and intellectual standpoint and is attained only through the drive to change the view of an entire global society on the roles of a class of citizens that still ranks second to the male patriarchy, which is exactly what feminism in the 1960s and 1970s was trying to prove.
The 1960s and 1970s were a period of evolution for American society; the country was recovering from the turmoil of the war in Vietnam and was still combatting antiwar sentiments. This instability proved to be the ideal
The Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention was organized by a number of local Quaker women and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and was strategically scheduled during Philadelphia-stationed orator Lucretia Mott’s visit to the
In 1962 Betty Friedan illustrated the struggles of women during the 1960s for these specific rights and captured the despair of a generation of educated housewives in her book The Feminine Mystique. What Americans found most shocking and what many women found most compelling about Friedan’s work was that she confronted the “universal truth” that women were content as “server[s] of food… bedmaker[s]... [and] somebody [to] call upon ” and defied it through the voices of the disconcerted women in the 1960s. Initially, Friedan had been asked to conduct an interview of her former Smith College classmates at their 15th anniversary reunion and found that many women were discontent with their roles in the family and in society, which inspired her to write The Feminine