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Aclu: Title Ix the Nine
Brief biographies of nine visionary people who supported equal opportunity for women in education and sports.
Digital History
Digital History: Feminism Reborn
This comprehensive survey of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s documents women and politics, women's wages, legal discrimination against women, stereotypes of women, women's rights legislation, and women's rights...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: All Female Enterprise
This Wide Angle video looks at the advantages and disadvantages of running a small-scale, female-only business.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: The Women's Movement
Taking its cue from the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Movement gained momentum throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
PBS
Pbs: Independent Lens: Sisters of '77: The Conference
The National Women's Conference, held in Houston in 1977, held discussions on a wide range of women's issues. Find out about those who attended, and find a list of the twenty-six resolutions voted on at the conference.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Social in Equality Questions
This eight-questions quiz pertaining to social inequality.
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The Human Right to Freedom From Discrimination
This site discusses the "human right to freedom from any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on gender, race, color, national or ethnic origin, language, religion, political or other opinion, age, or any other status,...
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Us Eeoc: Title Vii of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provided important protection for fairness in employment by establishing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Read the text of that legislation here, and see how it protects workers on...
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Eeoc
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited not only discrimination based on race, but also gender. Use this lesson plan to explore the document, particularly Title VII in examining the law.
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Encyclopedia Virginia: Civil Rights Act of 1964
A detailed look at the Civil Rights Act of 1964, paying particular attention to how Virginia Representative Howard W. Smith added an amendment intended to kill the act by making it cover gender discrimination as well as racial. Read...
Social Science Education Consortium
Ssec: Women's Wages: Do Women Earn Less Than Men? [Pdf]
This investigation will help young scholars examine data related to wage and salaries earned by women and men, including the following questions: What is the current status of women's earnings in relation to men's? and What may influence...
City University of New York
Chinese Cultural Studies: Women in China: Past and the Present
This article discusses the equality problems women in China face even though things have changed since 1949. Includes information on divorce.
University of Washington
University of Washington: Everday Life During the Depression
The culture in America was transformed by the Great Depression. How did the families cope? Read essays about topics such as changing advertising trends, prohibition, Anti-Semitism, gender equality, new family roles, and sports during the...
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Pbs: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
A program to put an end to the oppression of women and girls worldwide brings together an information site where visitors can find blogs, social media feeds, celebrity and crew diaries, videos, and up-to-date information about the...
CNN
Cnn: Day of Vindication for Grandma as Pay Law Signed (2009)
It took 10 years, but Lilly Ledbetter won her fight for her gender discrimination claim. It became law under the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act signed by President Obama. This article, briefly tells her story. (30 January 2009)
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Shaping a New America
A brief overview of the protest movements in the 1960s and 1970s.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Transformed Workplaces
In this Wide Angle video, learn about the transformation of the Indian workplace due to a new influx of young, mostly female workers into India's outsourcing industries.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: New Confidence
This Wide Angle video looks at the reservations that a traditional Indian family had about their daughter taking a job in India's outsourcing industry.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Timeline: Woman Suffrage
Learn more about the suffrage movement with this interactive timeline.
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The Chicago Women's Liberation Union: An Introduction
Well-written essay that describes the conditions of American women and the early women's liberation movement. Links to many related articles, posters and interviews. Good resource.
United Nations
United Nations: Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
Learn the eight goals that the United Nations had set forth for the Millennium and read about how we have been doing. There is also a link to a new site where the UN has set seventeen new goals for 2016 and beyond.
The Guardian
Guardian: A Timeline of Women's Right to Vote Interactive
Map takes a look at when women got the right to vote in countries around the world. Searchable by date or country.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Cultural Change
Exciting lesson plan teaching students about the social change in women's role in society that allowed women the right to vote. Students will learn about the process women went through to gain the right to vote by exploring various...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Betty Friedan
Journalist, activist, and co-founder of the National Organization for Women, Betty Friedan was one of the early leaders of the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 70s.
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