• Started the Women's Action Alliance: In 1971, she helped create this group to support women's rights and tackle gender equality issues.

• Co-founded Ms. Magazine: In 1972, she helped launch this magazine to give a voice to women's issues and promote feminism through writing.

• Supported Reproductive Rights: Steinem has been a strong advocate for women's rights to make choices about their own bodies.

• Public Speaker and Writer: She has written many books and articles and has given speeches that motivate people to get involved in social justice causes.

• Famous Quote: "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

  
  

• Twelve workweeks of leave in a 12-month period for:

  • the birth of a child and to care for the newborn child within one year of birth;

  • the placement with the employee of a child for adoption or foster care and to care for the newly placed child within one year of placement;

  • to care for the employee’s spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition;

  • a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the essential functions of his or her job;

  • any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee’s spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a covered military member on “covered active duty;” or

• Twenty-six work weeks of leave during a single 12-month period to care for a covered servicemember with a serious injury or illness if the eligible employee is the servicemember’s spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin (military caregiver leave).

• A former Alabama factory manager who filed lawsuit against her employer

• Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

Author (2012)

• Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009-declared unlawful employment practice occurs when

• a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice adopted

• an individual becomes subject to the decision or practice

• an individual is affected by application of decision or practice

  
  

  In 2011 was inducted into the Nation Women's Hall of Fame

  
  

• Democratic Party

• First African-American senator in Texas

• Elected president of Senate in Texas

  (1972)

• Served in the House of Representatives for Texas (1973-79)

• Well-known for her particpation in the hearings held by the House Judiciary Committee on the impeachment of President Nixon (1974)

• Became a prominent voice on the Judiciary Committee (1975)

• Delivered the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention (1992)

• She published The Feminine Mystique, a founding text of modern feminism that is considered one of the most influential books of the twentieth century (1963).

• She was the co founder of the National Organization of Women to advocate for equality (1966).

The Women's Armed Services Integration Act was a law signed by President Harry S. Truman on June 12, 1948 that allowed women to serve as permanent members of the U.S military.

What did it do?

The act allowed women to serve in all branches of the military, including the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps

Why was it important?

The act was a turning point in women's right to serve in the military. Before the act, women could only serve in the military during wartime, and were limited to roles like nurses or clerical volunteers

Who was involved?

Captain Joy Bright Hancock, the director of the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), was a key advocate for the act

What was the impact?

The Women's Armed Services Integration Act represented a significant milestone in women's participation in the U.S. military, though it did not fully integrate women into all areas of service.

• The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 is a federal law that extended the time period for filing pay discrimination claims

• This made it easier for employees to challenge unequal pay.

  - Parties Involved: Estelle Griswold, Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, and Dr. C. Lee Buxton, a physician and professor at Yale Medical School, were the appellants.

  - Law in Question: Connecticut law that prohibited the use of any drug, medicinal article, or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception.

- Supreme Court Decision:

  - Date of Decision: June 7, 1965

  - Outcome: The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Griswold, striking down the Connecticut law.

  - Majority Opinion: Written by Justice William O. Douglas.

  - Vote: 7-2 in favor of Griswold.

- Reasoning:

  - Right to Privacy: The Court held that the Constitution implicitly guarantees citizens' right to privacy.

  - Penumbra Theory: Justice Douglas argued that the right to privacy is found in the "penumbras" and "emanations" of other constitutional protections.

  - Relevant Amendments: The First, Third, Fourth, and Ninth Amendments create a new constitutional right, the right to privacy in marital relations.

- Significance:

  - Precedent: Griswold v. Connecticut established the basis for the right to privacy with respect to intimate practices.

  - Impact on Future Cases: This case was a precursor to later landmark cases involving privacy rights, including Roe v. Wade (1973) and Lawrence v. Texas (2003).

  - Legal Doctrine: The case reinforced the concept that certain rights, though not explicitly stated in the Constitution, are protected by the Constitution.