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The Women's Strike for Equality was a strike which took place in the United States on August 26, 1970. It celebrated the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment , which effectively gave American women the right to vote. [ 1 ]
In the 1960s, women were virtually nonexistent in television news, with the exception of the occasional "weather girl." [3] Hill had intended on going into international relations. [2] By happenstance, Hill and her husband saw a newspaper advertisement looking for a women's editor on a local TV station. She applied and got the job three weeks ...
Every ten years, on the anniversary of the Day Off, women stop work early. [1] In 1975, the women strikers left work at 2:05 p.m., and in 2005 they left at 2:08 p.m., reflecting the amount of progress made in 30 years. Increasing the frequency of strikes, in 2010, they left work at 2:25 p.m. and in 2016 at 2:38 p.m., with many women taking part ...
Image credits: apoc666apoc “The music tended to be more hedonistic due to the right-wing political backlash of the early 1970s and when disco came on board you were looking at an even more ...
Monica Schipper/WireImage Actress Jacqueline Bisset is sharing her candid opinion about the #MeToo movement. “I understand as an idea, it’s important that men behave, but I do really think it ...
Liberationists, such as the members of the VOK, opposed moving away from the grass-roots nature of women's work and allowing all members to have a voice. [16] By 1985, the cooperation and work of liberationists for women's autonomy, had given way to more formally-established, politically organized women's groups.
Professions associated with women's caregiving roles remain lower paid than other jobs—but, long before Equal Pay Day was a thing, the idea of "women's work" was just a stereotype.
In 1990, women's labor force participation in the US was 74% compared to the non-US average of 67.1%, ranking the US 6th out of 22. In 2010, women's participation increased slightly to 75.2% in the US, while the non-US average jumped more than 12 percentage points to 79.5%. As a result, US women ranked 17th out of 22 countries only 20 years later.