DISCRIMINATION
OF WOMEN
IN THE USA
THE DEFINITION
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Gender discrimination is discrimination
against a person or group on the
grounds of sex or gender identity.
Women’s discrimination is divided
into following groups:
 Private
life
 Work
 Education
politics
and
PRIVATE LIFE
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1848 First women’s
rights convention
1916 First birth control
clinic
1973 Right to safe and
legal abortion
WORK, FAIR WAGES OR EQUAL PAY
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1903 Women’s Trade
Union League
1963 Equal Pay Act
1967 Civil Rights Act
1968 Discrimination
against pregnant
women banned
GLASS CEILING
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The United Nations had concluded that
women often experience a "glass ceiling"
and that there are no societies in which
women enjoy the same opportunities as
men. The term "glass ceiling" describes the
process by which women are barred from
promotion by means of an invisible barrier.
EDUCATION AND POLITICS
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1920 19 Amendment Act (the
right to vote)
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1981 Sandra Day O'Connor
becomes the first female justice
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1880 The Women's
Educational Equity Act (WEAA)
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1997 Madeleine Albright
becomes the first female United
States Secretary of State
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2005 Condoleezza Rice
becomes the first female African
American Secretary of State
SERVING IN THE MILITARY
FORCES
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June 12, 1948
Women’s Armed Services Integration
Act,United States law
Women’s federal and state
organizations
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National American Woman Suffrage
Association
League of Women Voters
NYC Women's right's organisation (state)
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Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and
political movements, theories and moral philosophies
concerned with gender inequalities and equal rights
for women.