The 1960s Reshapping the American Dream Timeline

SS211: The 1960s Reshaping the American Dream February 12, 2014

Assignment Unit 6

Assignment

Part 1:

1960: Women now earn 60 cents for every dollar earned by men, a decline since 1955. Women of color earn only 42 cents.

1963: The Equal Pay Act, proposed twenty years earlier, establishes equal pay for men and women performing the same job duties. It does not cover domestics, agricultural workers, executives, administrators or professionals.

1964: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act bars employment discrimination by private employers, employment agencies, and unions based on race, sex and other grounds. To investigate complaints and enforce penalties, it establishes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which receives 50,000 complaints of gender discrimination in its first five years.

1966: In response to EEOC inaction on employment discrimination complaints, twenty-eight women found the National Organization for women to function as a civil rights organization for women.

Reference:

The Path of the Women's Rights Movement. (n.d). A Timeline of the Women's Rights Movement 1848 – 1998. Retrieved from

http://www.ibiblio.org/prism/mar98/path.html

Part 2:

“In the 1960 women was earn 60 cents for every dollar that they was earned by the men, to which it basically decline in the year of 1955. To where the women in color earn only 42 cents. When the year of 1963 came around Equal Pay Act pretty much proposed twenty years earlier, to mainly establish the Equal pay for men and also women by performing the same job duties. To which it didn’t cover the domestics, agricultural workers, executives, administrators or the professionals. During the 1964 the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act bars employment of discrimination by the private employers, employment agencies, and unions which was based on race, sex...