MORE INFORMATION ON WOMEN IN THE 1960'S

"The 60's. A time of rebellion. People stretched their wings. Challenged authority. Women started to fight for their Rights. They stepped out of the happy homemaker stereotype, and became the working mother. They realized they were being stifled and controlled. This was a decadent decade. Women's rights took on a new meaning. Not since the 1920's have people seen this much fire about feminism. Many events took place that defined this decade but here are just a few."

1963- The Equal Pay Act, proposed twenty years earlier, established equal pay for men and women performing the same job duties. It doesn't cover domestics, agricultural workers, executives, administrators or professionals.

1963- Betty Friedan's best seller, The Feminine Mystique, detailed the " problem that has no name." Five million copies are sold by 1970, laying the groundwork for the modern feminist movement.

1966- Fifty state Commissions on the Status of Women convened in Washington, D.C., to report on their findings.

1968- The first national women's liberation conference is held in Chicago.