The Feminist Movement Of The 1960's And 70s

The feminist movement of the 1960s and '70s originally focused on dismantling workplace inequality, such as denial of access to better jobs and salary inequity, via anti-discrimination laws (Tavanna, 2016). During this era, a woman was expected to have similar paths, which was to marry at an early age, begin a family, and commit herself to the lifestyle of homemaking for the rest of her life. The female role in every household was not expected to expect much from life, since they are to be devoted to care for their husband and children.

About 38 percent of American women in 1960 were limited to jobs as teacher, nurse, or secretary. During this time women were unwelcome in professional programs such as medical schools. Women’s movement had a lot to do with work discrimination. Women were discriminated for being pregnant, tall, short, disabled, plus size, unattractive, anorexic and for religion. Equal pay has been a major issue with women discrimination. In the early 1900’s women were given a lower salary than men because organizations would think that women have no value and that men rose higher than women. In 1963 the Equal Pay Law was enacted. This meant that if a woman does the same work as a man, the …show more content…
The glass ceiling is the concept that women can only get to a certain level in organizations and then there done. For example, if a woman was promoted a supervisor, that is the highest position they will ever get. This is an imaginary ceiling that women hit their heads on, while going up the latter in an organization and then they are not able to rise above that glass ceiling. This is a type of perception that women have in the way they do