How did the culture of the 60s change the Women’s movement? Imagine the era before the sixties, most women really had a difficult time with their own basic rights and lifestyles. They were also discriminated as a second gender, which had to follow a frame of the society by starting a family since their early ages and to stay at home as a housewife taking care of a husband and child, which means that everything seemed to be limited for them. However, after the revolutionary of the 60’s, the second wave, things had tremendous changed for women. The women’s movement led to two main changes to the society in terms of rights and workplaces which will be discussed in the following paragraphs. To begin with, women
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In the early period of 1960s, women did not work as it is nowadays. To illustrate, there were no women work in a career, such as scientists, doctors, and officers. Soon after when the economy began to expand, women did not receive the full amount of income, which they only made about 60 per cent on what men were earning. At the time, banks gave better credit to men but not for women. For instance, women missed to receive money when they needed a loan for their businesses because the banks gave priority to men in order to receive it first. Additionally, as an achievement for politics, President Kennedy tried to launch policies for supporting women to have a chance to grow up in terms of their career as well as equality. For example, his policy was “the President’s Commission on the Status of Women”. There is another program called the Equal Pay Act, in 1940, which it helped women and men to get equal pay if they work for the same jobs. Besides, in 1964, “Title VII of the Civil Rights Act” was successfully helped to solve problems on discrimination in work place for women. From my perspective, before the sixties, women were forced to stay at home and do housework. They did not even have a chance to do what the men can do. From my experience, I have seen some old head parents, including my relatives, who believe that a woman should have a tidy room and know how to do the housework while it is not necessary for men to know the things, which I think it is unfair to me. Actually, I would like to admit that I did protest them many times by saying we are the same, one of my cousins did not how to wash the dish, so I said to them that men also should know how to wash the dish and keep their rooms clean. I did not mean to be an arrogant person but it could not help with their logic. Is it because I was born as a woman, so I have to be tidy and clean all the time? I have been
In the early period of 1960s, women did not work as it is nowadays. To illustrate, there were no women work in a career, such as scientists, doctors, and officers. Soon after when the economy began to expand, women did not receive the full amount of income, which they only made about 60 per cent on what men were earning. At the time, banks gave better credit to men but not for women. For instance, women missed to receive money when they needed a loan for their businesses because the banks gave priority to men in order to receive it first. Additionally, as an achievement for politics, President Kennedy tried to launch policies for supporting women to have a chance to grow up in terms of their career as well as equality. For example, his policy was “the President’s Commission on the Status of Women”. There is another program called the Equal Pay Act, in 1940, which it helped women and men to get equal pay if they work for the same jobs. Besides, in 1964, “Title VII of the Civil Rights Act” was successfully helped to solve problems on discrimination in work place for women. From my perspective, before the sixties, women were forced to stay at home and do housework. They did not even have a chance to do what the men can do. From my experience, I have seen some old head parents, including my relatives, who believe that a woman should have a tidy room and know how to do the housework while it is not necessary for men to know the things, which I think it is unfair to me. Actually, I would like to admit that I did protest them many times by saying we are the same, one of my cousins did not how to wash the dish, so I said to them that men also should know how to wash the dish and keep their rooms clean. I did not mean to be an arrogant person but it could not help with their logic. Is it because I was born as a woman, so I have to be tidy and clean all the time? I have been