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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Just a little sketch for non-massacre AU in which Tsunade fell ill (?) and Sakura was forced to become Hokage so that Danzo won’t become one
- Naruto, Kakashi and Sasuke underestimating Sakura from the formation of Team 7
- Sakura befriends Shisui and then Itachi who help her prove her teammates how strong she actually is
- Naruto and Sasuke not knowing how to act with their female teammate now that she’s a Hokage
- Itachi and Shisui being her left and right arms (advisors)
- Sakura (being Sasuke’s teammate) helping to improve the relationship between the village and Uchiha clan
- Fugaku wanting Sakura as his daughter in law
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It’s 2018 can Tumblr stop mistaking my Sakura appreciation for me being into SS because Sakura is more than a ship you bums.
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And I can be all the things you told me not to be
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Io Shirai enters the Mae Young Classic.
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@femmefatalenet’s top 20 mythological women as voted by our followers → 1. Persephone
Greek goddess of spring and queen of the Underworld.
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can i get a girlfriend? can i please get a girlfriend?
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