Chapter 5: League of Women Voters of California, Yes ERA! (1974), and Phyllis Schafly, “What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women?
Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman wrote the and introduced the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in 1923 in order to ensure the right that women have identical opportunities as men. This would ensure that women have the same rights as men, thus meaning that women would have to give up certain protections. Labor unions opposed this legislation because they believed it would weaken protective labor legislation, and was subsequently not adopted. Betty Friedan and a new women’s movement helped bring the ERA back to the forefront. In 1970, the National Organization of Women picketed the United States Senate, and 20,000 American women held the Women’s Strike for Equality. It later overwhelming passed in the House and Senate, and subsequently endorsed by President Richard Nixon. It then needed to be ratified by the State …show more content…
This included a muscular foreign policy, economic libertarianism, moral conservatism, and law-and-order. This came after the President Carter administration, where many Americans were upset with the direction of the country to what they saw as weaker. When President Reagan finished his two terms, there was an election between his Vice President, George H.W. Bush and Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. While Dukakis attempted to paint himself as a moderate, the Bush campaign branded him as a liberal out of the mainstream. They said he would raise taxes and weaken defense and crime. The GOP ran a blatantly racist advertisement linking Dukakis with Willie Horton, a black man who kidnapped and murdered a local woman and assaulting her fiancé while on a weekend furlough program. Bush won 40 states and the election. It seems as if the majority of Americans were embracing the new conservative
Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman wrote the and introduced the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in 1923 in order to ensure the right that women have identical opportunities as men. This would ensure that women have the same rights as men, thus meaning that women would have to give up certain protections. Labor unions opposed this legislation because they believed it would weaken protective labor legislation, and was subsequently not adopted. Betty Friedan and a new women’s movement helped bring the ERA back to the forefront. In 1970, the National Organization of Women picketed the United States Senate, and 20,000 American women held the Women’s Strike for Equality. It later overwhelming passed in the House and Senate, and subsequently endorsed by President Richard Nixon. It then needed to be ratified by the State …show more content…
This included a muscular foreign policy, economic libertarianism, moral conservatism, and law-and-order. This came after the President Carter administration, where many Americans were upset with the direction of the country to what they saw as weaker. When President Reagan finished his two terms, there was an election between his Vice President, George H.W. Bush and Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. While Dukakis attempted to paint himself as a moderate, the Bush campaign branded him as a liberal out of the mainstream. They said he would raise taxes and weaken defense and crime. The GOP ran a blatantly racist advertisement linking Dukakis with Willie Horton, a black man who kidnapped and murdered a local woman and assaulting her fiancé while on a weekend furlough program. Bush won 40 states and the election. It seems as if the majority of Americans were embracing the new conservative