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The 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, implemented an executive order which created the National Women’s Business Enterprise Policy. The order was put in place to offer support to women owned businesses. This meant that it was “a business that has a minimum of fifty-one percent ownership, operation, and control by a woman or women.” The order allowed women owned businesses to have access to key tools that would boost development, growth, and expansion. President Jimmy Carter had big goals, “to begin the process of shifting the balance of business power more to the center of the continuum by encouraging the creation, development, implementation, and growth of women-owned businesses and business ventures.”

Jimmy Carter was able to provide women with the opportunity to close the gender gap in the workplace. Because of this, the movement now had not only social ambitions, but legal ones as well. The public could feel however they wanted, but without changing the laws, society would have reasons to continue in their misogynistic ways. With the executive order, Jimmy Carter participated in the long and hard fight to legally equalize the sexes.

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In 1968, women all around the country protested the Miss America Pageant. Although it initially was set to only challenge the pageant itself, the protest began to take on a new meaning. The protest developed into an objection of the way American society treated women as a whole, rather than simply the misogynistic beauty standards in the pageant community. The protest was historic due to its powerful public demonstrations and regulations.

Although the protest did not directly eliminate American beauty pageants, it did change the social perception of their nature. The protest in 1968 can be credited as the start of second wave feminism, and can be labeled as the catalyst to the twentieth century women's movement.

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In 1966, the National Organization for Women was founded with a mission of creating “action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society.” During the twentieth century women’s movement, NOW brought together women from all across the country to take real action. NOW was viewed as a call to action, declaring “the time has come to confront, with concrete action, the conditions that now prevent women from enjoying the equality of opportunity and freedom of choice which is their right as individual Americans, and as human beings.”

The National Organization for Women was able to solidify the twentieth century women’s movement. Despite the anger and feeling of mistreatment that many women faced at the time, there simply was no concrete place to look, in order to seek justice. The National Organization for Women was able to provide women with the information and fuel to fight for gender equality. Not only was it a massive resource for information and support, but it also became one of the most important faces of the women’s movement

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The first traces of American Feminism put to action can be seen in the Women's Suffrage Movement. During this time, women fought for the right to vote.

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The second most predominant feminist movement can then be seen in the Women's Liberation Movement. This is the movement I studied.

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This is the most current wave of feminism. It can be seen in the #MeToo movement, alongside #TimesUp. Third wave feminism continues the work of the second wave, with more aggressive advances in subjects like abortion rights.