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**WOMEN'S LIBERATION** ======

Women's liberation during the 60's and 70's was known as the "Second Wave" of the Feminist Movement. It was known as a period of feminism and a search for sexual equality. Where the "First Wave" of the Feminist Movement focused mainly on equal rights for women such as voting and property rights, the "Second Wave" addressed a wider range of issues encompassing legal inequalities, sexuality, family, the work place, and the most controversial, reproductive rights. Many feminists view the end of the "Second Wave" with the intra-feminism disputes of the Feminist Sex Wars, over issues such as sexuality and pornography.

President Kennedy makes women's rights a key issue of the New Frontier, and names women to many high-ranking posts in his administration The Commission's report finds discrimination against women in every aspect of American life and outlines plans to achieve equality. Specific recommendations for women in the workplace include fair hiring practices, paid maternity leave, and affordable childcare. Twenty years after it is first proposed, the Equal Pay Act establishes equality of pay for men and women performing equal work. However, it does not cover domestics, agricultural workers, executives, administrators or professionals. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars employment discrimination on account of sex, race, etc. by private employers, employment agencies, and unions. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is established; in its first five years, 50,000 complaints of gender discrimination are received. Twenty-eight women found the National Organization for Women to function as a Civil Rights Organization for women. Betty Friedan becomes its first president. The group is the largest women's group in the U.S. and pursues its goals through extensive legislative lobbying, litigation, and public demonstrations. NOW begins petitioning the EEOC to end sex-segregated want ads and adopts a Bill of Rights for Women. For the first time, feminists use the slogan "Sisterhood is Powerful." Members of New York Radical Women protest the Miss America Pageant of 1968, which they decried as sexist and racist.
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