Women’s Rights

Women’s Rights in the USA.

Equal opportunities at work were granted to women in the USA through the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This forbade discrimination in the workplace. In 1966 the National Organization for Women was established. This group aimed to improve the rights of women.

Since the 1970’s there have been further improvements, with the following changes taking place:

• Greater freedom in reproductive choice (1973);

• Minimum wage protection for domestic workers (1974);

• Prohibitions against discriminating in employment against pregnant women (1978);

• Tougher child support laws and protection of pension rights for widows and divorced women (1984);

• Provision of federal funds for child care (1990);

• Employment protection for workers needing extended time off to care for family members (1993);

• Protections against violence (1994).

The United States c1945-1971
The Red Scare	Impact of the Second World War on Civil Rights	Civil Rights in 1950
Brown v Topeka Board of Education	Little Rock High School	Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Protest
Martin Luther King Jnr	Nation of Islam and Malcolm X	The Black Panthers
Ku Klux Klan in the 1960's	March on Washington	Civil Rights Acts
Immigration Act of 1965	Chicano movement and Civil Rights for Hispanic Americans	College Sit In's and Student Protests
Women's Rights	Native Americans and Civil Rights