Inequalities Of Being A Woman In The 1970's

In America the woman in the 1970,s were almost never respected and always limited from being a mother at home as well as their workplace. Woman never had a chance from the start. They were expected to get married in their early 20s and devote her time and energy to running the household. Woman basically had one purpose be the keeper of her kids or her husband. Woman devoted most of their time taking of the kids and spent around 55 hours a week cleaning the house and whatever else she needed to do within the household. There was essentially no point in working because whatever earnings they did make would go to the husband. Woman had many issues prior to the movement. One of which being inequality of pay compared to men. Woman who were black had it even worse. Aside from them being black they were also woman so they had it 2 times as worse. Another issue was women’s earnings going to the husband if there was no agreement between the two. And the inequality of being a woman and the way you were looked at as a woman and what your race was.

One of the bigger challenges women faced before the liberation was the dominance among the males over the female sex. Because the woman labor force increased they had two jobs. To actually go work and take of the children as …show more content…
Their success rate in college compared to men was really in favor of the men. And 60 percent of woman dropped out of college most of them. Most of them dropped out to marry at younger ages. The ones who did graduate half of them would take paid work and 1/3 of them were clerical workers. Women had to work double shifts. Work from 9-5 and second unpaid job at home which required clean the house and house chores and watch after the children. ( Giardina, Carol. "Toward a Female Liberation Movement." Freedom for Women: Forging the Women 's Liberation Movement, 1953-1970. Gainesville, FL: U of Florida, 2010. 16.