https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do en-us 2021-05-12 16:24:10 UTC 2021-05-12 16:59:27 UTC hello@padlet.com kantjul1 https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518218070 On this day women protested the image of Miss American because it was image that oppressed women in every aspect in which it was supposed to represent. The protest had a “freedom trash can” which women could throw away all the physical objects of women's oppression like bras, girdles, curlers, false eyelashes, etc.

]]> 2021-05-12 16:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518218070 kantjul1 https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518234969 This was when the first issue of Ms. Magazine was published. It was the first nationally circulated women's magazine to bring feminism and the issues of the women's rights movement into the mainstream.]]> 2021-05-12 16:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518234969 kantjul1 https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518252455 Women held a sit in at Ladies Home Journal. They protested how the magazine's mostly male editorial board depicted women. After the 10 plus sit in the editor allowed them to write 8 pages in the next up and coming issue. ]]> 2021-05-12 16:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518252455 kantjul1 https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518260696 The book "The Feminine Mystique" was written by Betty Friedan. It went into length to discuss the lack of purpose some married women felt. She believed that women should be allowed to have a family as well as a job. ]]> 2021-05-12 16:40:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518260696 kantjul1 https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518280475 The Equal Pay Act gets passed by Congress and it promises equal wages for the same work regardless of the race, color, religion, national origin or sex of the worker.]]> 2021-05-12 16:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518280475 kantjul1 https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518312826 The Pregnancy Discrimination Act is put into motion and it bans employment discrimination against pregnant women.]]> 2021-05-12 16:51:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518312826 kantjul1 https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518319517 The Food and Drug Administration approves the first commercially produced birth control pill in the world allowing women to control when and if they have children. ]]> 2021-05-12 16:52:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518319517 kantjul1 https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518324909 The  Roe v. Wade case made a decision and the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Constitution protects a woman’s legal right to an abortion.]]> 2021-05-12 16:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518324909 kantjul1 https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518337835 Patsy Takemoto Mink became the first woman of color to get elected for Congress when she won one of Hawaii's seats in the House of Representatives in 1964. She served until 1977 and advocated for the rights of women, immigrants, and children.]]> 2021-05-12 16:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518337835 kantjul1 https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518345643 The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded and it originally aimed to figure out how to enforce the Title VII section of the Civil Rights Act. NOW still uses power to advocate for women's economic, political, and social equality.]]> 2021-05-12 16:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kantjul1/44bp21oyzr24y8do/wish/1518345643