What were the goals of the new wave of feminism?
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Figure false: Cover of the First Issue of Ms. Magazine
Figure false: In 1972, Gloria Steinem and other journalists and writers published the premier issue of the first mass-circulation magazine for and controlled by women. Ms.: The New Magazine for Women ignored the recipes and fashion tips of typical women’s magazines. It featured literature by women writers and articles on a broad range of feminist issues. Courtesy, Lang Communications.
BECOMING VISIBLE by the late 1960s, a multifaceted women’s movement reached its high tide in the 1970s and persisted into the twenty-first century. By that time, despite a powerful countermovement, women had experienced tremendous transformations in their legal status, public opportunities, and personal and sexual relationships, while popular expectations about appropriate gender roles had shifted dramatically.
CHRONOLOGY
1963
- – President’s Commission on the Status of Women issues report.
- – Equal Pay Act makes it illegal to pay women less than men for the same work.
1966
- – National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded.
1972
- – Title IX bans sex discrimination in education.
1973
- – Supreme Court rules in favor of abortion rights for women in Roe v. Wade.