While these conventions gave women solidarity it took 50 years until changes started to happen. The 1960s women’s suffrage movement really showed that women were done being pushed around. When women gained the right to vote it was the first step to liberation. Not long after that women began to fight for job equality and equal pay. Even though in todays society women still do not have complete equal pay or job equality, the Equal Pay Act of 1970 was the second step to liberation, it gave women the power of money. Because women could now fund themselves they were less under the control of men. Women no longer husband funded and did not needed their permission to spend money. Later on in 1972 women gained equal access to education as men resulting in a third form of power. Now that women had gained equal rights for education they could not longer be controlled and put down by men’s “superior” knowledge base. While violence against females was still and issues there were ways that inequality of power was addressed as
While these conventions gave women solidarity it took 50 years until changes started to happen. The 1960s women’s suffrage movement really showed that women were done being pushed around. When women gained the right to vote it was the first step to liberation. Not long after that women began to fight for job equality and equal pay. Even though in todays society women still do not have complete equal pay or job equality, the Equal Pay Act of 1970 was the second step to liberation, it gave women the power of money. Because women could now fund themselves they were less under the control of men. Women no longer husband funded and did not needed their permission to spend money. Later on in 1972 women gained equal access to education as men resulting in a third form of power. Now that women had gained equal rights for education they could not longer be controlled and put down by men’s “superior” knowledge base. While violence against females was still and issues there were ways that inequality of power was addressed as