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Gloria Steinem was one of the contributing founders of the Coalition Of Labor Union. This organization was formed in 1972 to exclusively demand women's rights to participate and be taken seriously in social and political events. Such as voting, business jobs, federal court jobs (judges and lawyers), campaigns and national party conventions. This organization helped create a positive and capable representation of women and express the importance of gender equality.

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Gloria is founding president of an organization called Ms. Foundation for Women in 1990. This is a multi-racial organization that empowers self love in women and young girls. This organization is the founder of the first national day dedicated to girls "Take your daughter to work day". This national day was created to expose and inspire young girls to career opportunities.

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Gloria Co- funded an organization in 2004 called the Women's media center. This organization promoted a positive image of women on the media.

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Gloria Steinem was born March 25th, 1934 in Toledo Ohio. She was the second child of her sister Susanne Steinem. Her parents divorced in 1944 leaving them raised by her mentally ill mother. After graduating high school Gloria attended Smith college in Massachusetts majoring in government. After college Gloria spent two years researching in India where her interests for activism grew. Gloria then started a professional career as a journalists in New York where she worked with New York Magazine reporting on political campaigns, social issues and the Women's Liberation movement. After announcing she was once a Playboy Bunny many people failed to take her seriously. Over looking people's opinion she continued her writings and began to speak publicly at protests and women movements. Today Gloria is 88 and still living.

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World war II took place in Europe, East Asia and islands of the Pacific Ocean. A war fought between Germany, Italy and Japan against the U.S. , The Soviet Union, France, Great and Britain. This war lasted from 1939-1945.

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The Assassination of President John F Kennedy took place on November 22nd, 1963 while traveling in downtown Dallas Texas. President Kennedy was shot three times by Lee Harvey Oswald and pronounced dead 30 minutes later. He was the 35th president until his assassination and was youngest to be voted president by election.

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On August 18th, 1920 women gained the right to vote granted by the 19th amendment passed by congress. This was an achieving milestone for women in this time period.

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The Vietnam war was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. This war lasted from November 1955 to April 30th 1975. Many young boys were drafted into the war and forced to leave their families. The U.S. withdrew from the war in 1973.

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The Women's Liberation Movement successfully changed how women were perceived by society. In aspects of women culture, economic and political roles. Women were overall granted more opportunities from this movement.

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The women's movement did not succeed in the aspect of rights to validate single-sex restrooms, same sex marriage and funded abortion failed to be passed by congress as it fell 3 states short.

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Gloria Steinem today is 88 years old and still a activist. Organizations supporting women's social rights and gender equality still actively exist today. Organizations such as The National Women's Law Center, The Center for Reproductive Rights, Ms. Foundation for Women, Women's Refugee Commission, Girls On The Run, and Dress for Success all carry out this support system. Over time Abortion clinics such as Planned Parent Hood have also been created for women and young girls to safely and confidentially have abortion procedures which is something Gloria and other activist she worked with fought for.

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To future generations of women, you are the roots of change | Gloria Steinem

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1970s USA Women's Liberation Rally, Gloria Steinem

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MLA - Michals, Debra. "Gloria Steinem." National Women's History Museum, 2017. Date accessed.

Chicago - Michals, Debra "Gloria Steinem." National Women's History Museum. 2017. www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/gloria-steinem.

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Trailblazing feminist Gloria Steinem is an acclaimed journalist and one of the most visible, passionate leaders and spokeswomen of the women's rights movement. Discover more at womenshistory.org.

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From ensuring women around the world have a safe, quality 12-year education, to advocating for women who lack access to safe health care or who face discrimination in the workplace, there are numerous charities and initiatives dedicated to serving women and communities in need.

Dress for Success and LeanIn.org are organizations that empower women in the workplace. Other initiatives, such as Girls Not Brides, focus on protecting the lives and rights of young girls in developing regions and countries.

Keep reading to discover 21 organizations that are making an impact in the realm of women's rights.

The World Health Organization's team dedicated to gender, equity, and human rights aims to "address [health] disparities (caused by gender inequalities, inequities, and lack of human rights-based approaches) to ensure better health for all."

The National Women's Law Center, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, has played an active role in the passage of legislation that supports women's rights, such as the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, which prohibits employers from discriminating based on pregnancy.

The NWLC also advocates for women's health care and reproductive rights, as well as the rights of children and families. For example, the organization partners with local, state, and national organizations to secure funding for Head Start, an initiative that supports early education for children from low-income families.

Dress for Success has been empowering women and female financial independence since 1997, and now has more than 150 chapters in 30 countries.

Women in need who have secured a job interview can qualify for services offered through Dress for Success by obtaining a referral from a hiring agency. They will then be given professional interview attire, which is donated, and often receive access to special events and networking opportunities.

CARE is a US-based organization founded in 1945, when 22 American organizations sent boxes of food (known as CARE Packages) to World War II survivors. Today, the organization no longer sends CARE Packages, but rather focuses on donating to communities in need of disaster and emergency relief, with an emphasis on empowering women.

"Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity, and protect natural resources," according to its website.

When Malala Yousafzai was a young girl in Pakistan, the Taliban took control of her town and prohibited girls from attending school. Yousafzai was a vocal advocate for the education of girls and women, which made her a target for the Taliban. In 2012, she was shot by a Taliban official on her way home from school.
Read more: The incredible life of Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who doesn't have a cell phone or use Facebook and once left Jon Stewart speechless
Yousafzai became the youngest-ever Nobel laureate in 2014, and she currently studies at the University of Oxford. Her organization, the Malala Fund, supports Yousafzai's vision of a world where "all girls receive 12 years of free, safe, quality education," according to its website.

The Malala Fund supports education for girls in developing nations, including Afghanistan, Brazil, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the Syria region.

Girls Who Code, a US-based organization, empowers young women to pursue careers in technology and computer science. The organization offers after-school coding classes for young women in 3rd grade through 12th grade, as well as summer programs and an alumni network.

Founded in 2012 by Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code has worked with 185,000 girls in all 50 states, and college-aged alumni of the program are majoring in computer science at a rate 15 times the national average, according to its 2017 annual report.

In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, published " Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead," a book about negotiation, mentorship, and women in the workplace.

Following the fame of her book, Sandberg created LeanIn.org, an initiative of the Sheryl Sandberg and Dave Goldberg Family Foundation. LeanIn.org supports women in the workplace by publishing resources for dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace and advocating for equal pay.

Women around the world can join Lean In Circles, which are small mentorship and networking groups.

LeanIn.org also publishes an annual report called the Women in the Workplace report, which is the largest comprehensive study of women in corporate America, according to the website.

The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) describes its mission as "to support feminist, women's rights, and gender justice movements to thrive, to be a driving force in challenging systems of oppression, and to co-create feminist realities."

AWID consists of more than 5,000 members - both individual and institutional - from 164 countries, according to its website.

She's the First partners with local organizations in 11 countries to run trainings, conferences, and campaigns that promote the rights of young women and girls to education.

She's the First reaches 200 campus chapters and has mentored around 7,200 girls, according to its website.

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21 organizations that are fighting for women's rights in the US and abroad

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From ensuring women around the world have a safe, quality 12-year education, to advocating for women who lack access to safe health care or who face discrimination in the workplace, there are numerous charities and initiatives dedicated to serving women and communities in need.

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Despite such dissension in its leadership and ranks, the women's rights movement achieved much in a short period of time. With the eventual backing of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1965), women gained access to jobs in every corner of the U.S. economy, and employers with long histories of discrimination were required to provide timetables for increasing the number of women in their workforces. Divorce laws were liberalized; employers were barred from firing pregnant women; and women's studies programs were created in colleges and universities. Record numbers of women ran for-and started winning-political office. In 1972 Congress passed Title IX of the Higher Education Act, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program receiving federal funds and thereby forced all-male schools to open their doors to women and athletic programs to sponsor and finance female sports teams. And in 1973, in its controversial ruling on , the United States Supreme Court legalized abortion.

The eventual dwindling of the women's rights movement was hastened by NOW's singular focus on passage of the ERA. Owing to the efforts of women such as Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem, the ERA passed Congress in 1972. But its ratification by the states became a rallying point for the backlash against feminism. Anti-feminists such as Phyllis Schlafly organized a crusade against the amendment, warning-correctly or not-that it would, among other things, invalidate state sodomy laws, outlaw single-sex restrooms in public places, legalize same-sex marriage, and make taxpayer-funded abortion a constitutional right. Needing ratification by 38 states within 10 years of its passage by Congress, the amendment fell three states short.

The failure of the ERA was followed in the 1980s by a gradual decline in organized, often bellicose activity by masses of women in the United States. Moreover, there was a growing national sense that the core goals of the women's rights movement had been achieved. NOW continued to work for women's rights-to defend abortion rights (a cause made more prominent by the National Abortion Rights Action League) and sexual harassment laws, to promote full equality in the military (including combat duty), and to secure greater federal funding for child care and for programs to prevent violence against women. But despite NOW's growth, both in budget and in membership, its activism became fragmented and fraught with dissension.

On college campuses, feminists argued among themselves and against their colleagues over such questions as whether male professors involved in consensual relationships with female students were guilty of sexual harassment. They debated the validity of women's studies as an academic major. The role of women in the armed forces became a point of contention as some hoisted the standard of equality while others protested that mothers in the military should not be sent off to war.

By the 1990s, a movement that was once defined by its radical pitch had taken on new tones-some of them conservative. The divide over abortion continued to alienate many women, such as the Feminists for Life, who believed fervently in women's rights but disagreed with the mainstream movement's position on abortion. That divide deepened when, in 1998, Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, declared her opposition to abortion on demand; shortly before dying in 2017, she claimed that she had been paid by antiabortion groups to support their cause.

Eventually, a backlash cast doubt on many of the social and economic achievements fostered by the women's rights movement. Faced with increasing numbers of single mothers and older divorced women living in poverty, many Americans began to wonder whether no-fault divorce and the end of most alimony had, in fact, served women's best interests. With a growing number of young children spending their early years in institutional day care, debates erupted over whether women were abdicating their maternal responsibilities and whether federal policies that gave tax breaks to working mothers were encouraging a further deterioration of the family unit. Feminists were further targeted as the primary culprits behind the many by-products of the sexual revolution, from the increased rate of teen pregnancy to the spread of AIDS. Ironically, however, many of the purveyors of those opinions were women who had achieved prominent status-thanks to the gains of the women's rights movement.
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women's rights movement - Successes and failures

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Despite such dissension in its leadership and ranks, the women's rights movement achieved much in a short period of time. With the eventual backing of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1965), women gained access to jobs in every corner of the U.S.