In the 1960′s Legally a woman couldn’t
Open a bank account or get a credit card without signed permission from her father or hr husband.
Serve on a jury - because it might inconvenience the family not to have the woman at home being her husband’s helpmate.
Obtain any form of birth control without her husband’s permission. You had to be married, and your hub and had to agree to postpone having children.
Get an Ivy League education. Ivy League schools were men’s colleges ntil the 70′s and 80′s. When they opened their doors to women it was agree that women went there for their MRS. Degee.
Experience equality in the workplace: Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women produced a report in 1963 that revealed, among other things, that women earned 59 cents for every dollar that men earned and were kept out of the more lucrative professional positions.
Keep her job if she was pregnant.Until the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978, women were regularly fired from their workplace for being pregnant.
Refuse to have sex with her husband.The mid 70s saw most states recognize marital rape and in 1993 it became criminalized in all 50 states. Nevertheless, marital rape is still often treated differently to other forms of rape in some states even today.
Get a divorce with some degree of ease.Before the No Fault Divorce law in 1969, spouses had to show the faults of the other party, such as adultery, and could easily be overturned by recrimination.
Have a legal abortion in most states.The Roe v. Wade case in 1973 protected a woman’s right to abortion until viability.
Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment. According to The Week, the first time a court recognized office sexual harassment as grounds for legal action was in 1977.
Play college sports Title IX of the Education Amendments of protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance It was nt until this statute that colleges had teams for women’s sports
Apply for men’s Jobs The EEOC rules that sex-segregated help wanted ads in newspapers are illegal. This ruling is upheld in 1973 by the Supreme Court, opening the way for women to apply for higher-paying jobs hitherto open only to men.
This is why we needed feminism - this is why we know that feminism works
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Jon has more chemistry with his bros than with anyone else on this show and that’s the tea
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i always remember how big i am when i pick up a shirt and it turns out it’s my underwear
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i always remember how big i am when i pick up a shirt and it turns out it’s my underwear
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[1920′s gangster voice] every single one’a you’s…… every single one’a you’s is valid…….
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I’m in Poland and they keep showing this pizza advert and it’s amazing.
It starts off with rival pizza makers who argue over who has the best pizza and are driving the customers away
Then there’s this crazy old lady who yells at them from a window to quit it (because where else do you yell business advice from?)
So they work together and do some obvious flirting via pizza montage
And the old lady is all like “just kiss already”
Then they create a pizza together, combine restaurants and live happily ever after with the crazy window lady
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A while back I heard my friend (male) insult another dude by saying, “You look like the kind of guy who wouldn’t go to Wal-Mart to buy his girlfriend a box of tampons” and I still think about that crowning insult sometimes
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Feminist Friday
When Robert Downey Jr. was asked about his acting process and Scarlett Johansson was asked how she got into shape
Two-time Oscar-winning Cate Blanchett
Designer & author Lauren Conrad
Award-winning Emma Stone
When award-winning actress Julianne Moore was asked to put her fingers into a “Mani Cam”
When award-winning Elisabeth Moss did
Emma Watson
Rihanna
Megan Fox
Nicki Minaj
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Did I ever tell you guys the story of how I got a letter from President Obama on my 13th birthday?
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If you want cute names for your partner just use ones on candles they’re so beautiful like pumpkin spice or Passion flower or midnight rose or vanilla bean
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If you hard. Then you hard.
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