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Alice Paul
Alice Paul - Womens History (History.com)- American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist
- Attended the American University, University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, and Washington College of Law
- Founded the National Woman's Party and Silent Sentinels
- Provided new inspirations to new gnerations of women's right's
- Laid down a foundation for mass movements for women's suffrage in the 1960's
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Title IX of the Education Amendments
- Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 made it illegal for there to be sex discrimination in the education system.
- Specifically cannot be denied educational rights based off of one's sex. Equal education opportunities for both genders.
- Applied to all public schools that recieved government money/loans (discluded schools that have a policy of admitting only one gender)
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The States Fail to Pass the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)
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Roe versus Wade
- Roe (P), a pregnant single woman was fighting that the abortion laws in Texas that made it illegal to get an abortion unless it was to prevent the mother from dying, were unconstitional.
- Texas county District Attorney Wade (D) Results: Ruled unconstitutional, violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Accomplishments
- Equal Pay Act promised equal wages to everyone no matter of race, gender, etc.
- Made abortion a private, legal act for all women (Roe vs Wade)
- First marital rape law, making it illegal for a spouse to rape the other (1976)
- The Violence Against Women Act (1994) was a program that helped victims of rape and domestic violence
- Supreme Court rules that the right to privacy includes unmarried women using birth control
- Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Victims can file a discrimination complaint
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Problems and Goals
- Acheive SOCIAL change. Less emphasis on government differing from before WWII
- Eliminating job and pay discriminamtion
- Men, as they were earlier were reluctant to give women any significant power politically and socially
