Much to Betty Freidan’ s credit the U. S Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment
(ERA) in1972, and by 1973, 30 states had ratified it. Yet the ERA encountered significant
opposition from Phyllis Schlafly and others.
a) Evaluate the assumptions and actions of Schlafly about women’s rights and women’s
role in American society.
b) Did these assumptions apply equally to minority women?
c) How did this posture affect the candidacy of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (the first
African American woman in the US Congress) for the US Presidency?
d) Why did Schlafly oppose feminism? Who were her supporters? In what ways did she
attack N.O.W?
e) Finally, what would you state are the effects of the legacy of Betty Freidan and the
Women’s Movement of the 1970’s on the state of the evolution of Women’s successes
and failures, in American society currently, especially with reference to the failure of
Hillary Clinton to, again, win the President of the USA and the growing effect of the “me
too “movement.
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