After feeling depressed about how pressured she was to be a stay at home mom, she studied psychology to learn more about why she felt that way, and after doing research and polls discovered that most other women felt the same.

She wrote the book The Feminine Mystique about how unhappy the housewife is, and it made her instantly famous.

She lost some friends and her husband divorced her because of it, but she became essential in the women's rights movement.

She was invited to a government conference to discuss Women in America, and when the government pretty much ignored the women speakers, she took a lot of representatives and founded the National Organization for Women, or NOW.

She wasn't entirely popular with some parts of the feminist movement because of her beliefs, like excluding women of color and lesbian women, believing younger activists were a bad thing.

Even with those though, her book is considered one of the most important parts of the movement.

Dolores attended Stockton High School, where she encountered a lot of racial discrimination and was faced with her achievements being downplayed due to her teachers not believing that a Latina girl could be so great. After graduating, Dolores earned a teaching degree and taught English to farmworkers’ children.

She would then continue to marry, have children, and continue to push her involvement in the farming community for later on in her life.

Dolores is still an activist today. In 2012, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Dolores Huerta is the founder and president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation. Through it, she continues to fight for social justice and equal rights, particularly within agricultural labor communities.

Her effects have brought up many different groups to start rising more and more and continue to push forward with fighting. She has been noticed by a feminist group which in turn had her meet up with a leader, Gloria Steinem, who then had Dolores speak before the National Organization of Women (or the NOW) and helped found the Coalition of Labor Union Women. The Coalition of Labor Union Women help push women into the role of legislators, increase their role in their unions, and overall promote for more power in unions for women.

In all, she has bettered the role of women in varying fields such as the LGBTQ, immigrants, poor/ lower income families and women, and many more.

-Delores led voter registration drives, supported bilingual candidates, and lobbied for equal rights for stocktons Latinx community.

-One of her strategies was to appear soft spoken and calm, but behind her calm and quiet personality she was a powerful and well spoken leader where she stood out fighting against racist and sexist resistance.

-She advocated for women laborers, spoke up on gender equality and how men and women are equally qualified in the workforce.

-Other critical issues she fought for were better environments for the poor, women, families, the environment, LGBTQ individuals, and immigrants. Shes still an activist today fighting against these things today and still advocating for civil peace and equality amongst everyone in the world.