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"On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised their right to vote for the first time. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. But on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship" (The Fight For Womens Suffrage). 

"We can Do It!"  is a poster made during 1942 as an American wartime propaganda poster to get women to join the war effort.

"Between 1970 and 1995, the percentage of women ages 25 to 54 who worked outside the home climbed from 50 percent to 76 percent, sociologists Suzanne Bianchi and Daphne Spain reported in their recent book "Balancing Act."" (Richard Morin and Megan Rosenfeld).

After the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission didn't do very much to enforce equality for women under Title VII,"in 1966, at the Third Annual Conference on the Status of Women in Washington, D. C., a group of 28 women formed an organization to fight for women's rights. They called it the National Organization for Women (NOW). By the end of the year, NOW had 300 members; by the end of the century it would have half a million" (Tina Gianoulis).

Back in the 1960's, the birth control bill was created as the world first reliable oral contraceptive, opening, "a door in many women's trapped lives by giving them the power to plan or avoid pregnancies" (Tina Gianoulis). Due to the civil rights movement, there was also a series of laws that passed to provide equal opportunities for everyone. "In particular, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbade job discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The addition of sex to the Civil Rights Act was almost an afterthought" (Tina Gianoulis).

"The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s was recognized by the mass media almost immediately. Some early commentators believed that it was in fact the second sexual revolution, the first one having taken place in the period after World War I and culminating in the wild drinking and sexual pranks of the lost generation, which included such writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna Saint Vincent Millay, and Ernest Hemingway, in the roaring twenties" (Jeffery Escoffier).