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This 9 page paper discusses the way in which the Women's Movement has been instrumental in getting legislation passed to ensure equal opportunity for women. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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of the ways in which the Womens Movement has impacted American society with regard to these concerns. Discussion We begin with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which
prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of sex, in addition to "race, religion and national origin" (Eisenberg and Ruthsdotter, 1998). When the bill was passed, the Equal Opportunity Employment
Commission was established at the same time, in order to "investigate discrimination complaints" (Eisenberg and Ruthsdotter, 1998). It investigated over 50,000 sex discrimination complaints in its first five years of
existence, but "it was quickly obvious that the commission was not very interested in pursuing these complaints (Eisenberg and Ruthsdotter, 1998). Because the legislation and the agency didnt seem
to be enough, the National Organization for Women was organized, to represent women in the same way the NAACP represents blacks (Eisenberg and Ruthsdotter, 1998). Title VII, then, was
added to the Civil Rights Act because of women activists; and when that failed to meet their needs, they organized to create NOW, which is still recognized as an extremely
effective organization for promoting womens rights. Title IX was passed in 1972 as part of the Education Code; its purpose was to grant "equal access to higher education and to
professional schools" (Eisenberg and Ruthsdotter, 1998). The results have been amazing: "The number of women doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects and other professionals has doubled and doubled again as quotas actually
limiting womens enrollment in graduate schools were outlawed" (Eisenberg and Ruthsdotter, 1998). Title IX is probably most often thought of in connection with athletics, where its passage has made it
possible for women to play sports at the college level. Its effectiveness can be seen in the increase in the number of women in sports: "One in twenty-seven high school
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