The Statement Of Purpose By Betty Friedan And Pauli Murray

There was a time where women were hardly acknowledged as anything other than a housewife. From the year of 1848 to the year of 1920, dawned the era of the original Women’s rights movement of America. Eventually, the movement was modernized. A very influential woman in particular, named Betty Friedan, took action during this modern movement. Betty Friedan changed how her generation and future generations view women’s rights by advancing the Women’s Rights movement, by advocating for women being involved in politics and by leading women into thinking they were more than society wanted them to be.

Women have been a vital key to the shaping and progression of our society. Throughout time, women’s roles and opportunities in the family, workplace, and society have greatly evolved. They started from being housewives that don’t have many rights, even in the household, to being valued citizens in our

National Organization of Women was created in 1966. By October 300 women and men had become charter members. Officials were elected, Kathryn Clarenbach as The Chair of Board, Betty Friedan as the President, Aileen Hernandez, who had announced her resignation from the EEOC. Betty strongly believed in the rights of women. After founding the NOW she ended up stepping down from the presidency position because of fighting issues among other members. Still believing that women didn't have to follow the regular expectations of the government or the others. This quote from Betty Friedan gives an idea on how the NOW was somewhat based off of before problems between the women and men.” The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity. The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity. “gives an example on how thinking and what went through Betty head. Saying this quote describes how the NOW reacted and how Betty personally thought and maybe fought a little bit harder than others. Closing how the NOW was created Betty did play a large role, including how many people Betty tried to help with the new problems but people could not agree with Betty so they were usually always

During World War II and shortly after, millions of American women experienced new freedom as they lived and worked in the public sphere due to the federal government’s campaign to recruit them to produce goods for the war effort. This new rhetoric directly differed from traditional ideology of republican motherhood and paternalism in which the man is the head of the household, works in the public sphere, and women live in the private sphere instilling virtue into the children while maintaining the household. With the United States’ immediate entrance into the Cold War following World War II, came a dramatic right shift in American politics and rhetoric. This included a return to republic motherhood in which political discussions and the media, through shows like “Father Knows Best”, encouraged women to express their patriotism by staying at home and raising families. Naturally, this right shift led to the continuance of discrimination based on gender. The National Organization of Women (NOW), an organization of the New Left, challenged such discrimination. The organization’s 1966 Statement of Purpose states, “The time has come for a new movement toward true equality for all women in America, and toward a fully equal partnership of the sexes, as part of the world-wide revolution of human rights now taking place within and beyond our national borders… The time has come to

One organization in particular has made a huge impact on Women's Rights, The National Organization for Women. "We have so much to learn from each other; but, more importantly, the world's policymakers need more and better information about women's lives that is informed by women themselves." The National Organization for Women was founded in 1966. Betty Friedan was the first elected president of the NOW. The NOW has made essential progress or women, they rose awareness to the fact that women were not treated equally to men. The NOW also laid out the main issues for women's equality; education, employment, political participation, family life, media, and domestic violence. The national Organization for Women's motto, or purpose is "to take action" to achieve the equality of women. The first NOW convention was in 1967, after the founding conference. The NOW decided to focus on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and getting it passed. Without this amendment women would not be able to make broad steps in future. "Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves." -Betty

Women have done amazing things to change the world. There are so many unstoppable, empowering women out there; among the greats are Betty Friedan, who started the second wave of feminism, George Sand, who lead the way for women in letting them have freedom to do as they wish, and especially Tarana Burke, the amazing mother of the #MeToo movement, which helped so many women and young girls. These women have done great things for other women, and even men. Betty Friedan was an utterly amazing woman. She wrote The Feminine Mystique creating the new wave of feminism in the 20th Century.

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.

Since the beginning of time, women have rarely been seen as equal alongside men. They were always expected to focus on housework and were never given the opportunity to own property, touch money, or vote. It wasn’t until the late 1800s when women decided to make a drastic change. Women’s rights activists, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, organized the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls. At this convention,

Throughout the history of the United States, equality for all has been a highly sought-after, yet controversial aspect of American life. Whether it was the period of Native American reorganization or the destructive era of Southern slavery, it has been equality that continues to be denied to a certain group of citizens. In order to combat this, many efforts have been made to influence equality in all elements of citizen’s lives. However, in today’s society, many of these attempts have failed to be noticed, for true equality has yet to be entirely achieved. Notably, working women all over the country have been denied equal wages to that of men. Thus, condoning the use of wage discrimination against women in the workplace is unjust and inequitable because women perform many of the same jobs as men do, they are entitled to the same basic rights as the rest of society, and because laws have already been passed to illegalize wage discrimination based on gender. Both men and women in the labor force are expected of comparable tasks and performances, yet the payment that women receive as compensation remains noticeably less than that of men.

Luckily for women, the American Women’s rights progressed tremendously since the late 1800’s, and the turning point for females was The Equal Pay Act in 1963. Women wanted more than their primary responsibilities of taking care of the home, children, and family. Although this law contributed significant changes in the development of the women in the workforce, it did come with unethical wages.

In this paper I will talk about how Gilman, Cooper and Collins think about progress for women. Analyzing their writings, I will compare and contrast their initial concerns and focuses on progress for women, explanations of the causes of gender inequalities, and ideas of future activism. I will discuss what they assumptions they shared in common and how they differentiated with each other specifically.

Although it was not seen as a right before, equality has grown into the statement for all of the natural human rights. Throughout the growth of the United States, much has changed: technology has advanced, wars have come and passed, old ways have been updated. However, the one thing that has followed slowly behind in the race for change is the equality for all. Those who were once viewed as lesser to the American males—females—are still having to make strides towards equality, but are considerably closer due to their fight for freedom and recognition. The documents “Now We Can Begin” by Crystal Eastman and “What’s Become of Rosie the Riveter?” by Frieda S. Miller are examples of what some of the women were out there fighting for.

Unsatisfied with the result of 1966 Conference delegates prohibiting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) from legally enforcing its mandate to end sex discrimination, the author of The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan gathered the first African-American female Episcopal priest Pauli Murray, the first Black woman that ran for president of United States, and several others for conference in a hotel then officially formed NOW. The feminist leaders promoted the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the 1970s. The amendment was approve by the Congress in 1972 then immediately ratified by 28 states. However there was another campaign promoting to stop the ERA led by Phyllis Schlafly, therefore result in only 35 states ratified the amendment with 3 states short to make it into the law. Due to the challenge of getting the ERA ratified, the NOW is officially formed under the disturbance theory and bargaining for the disadvantaged women of the time. Till today the organization is still actively lobbying legislatures and media for feminist issues.

Since the 1960s and before when Civil Rights began to change and revolutionize rights for women in a broader sense affecting the workplace, things have changed some but not enough.

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