Women’s Rights
Betty Friedman organized a massive women’s strike in New York. She planned a march of more than 35 thousand women down Fifth Avenue. A march like this also happened back in the 20’s. “Betty asked secretaries to put covers on their typewriters, telephone operators to plug their switchboards, waitresses to stop serving meals, cleaning women to put up their mops, and for wives to stop cooking,” said one historian that helped the organizing of the march in the 70s. Many of the women in the march carried signs that said, “I AM NOT A BARBIE DOLL,” or, “DON’T CALL ME DOLL, CHICK, GIRL, OR BROAD.” Although some women wanted freedom, others were just fine with what they had. Women from the ERA believed, “It is unnecessary because women were already protected under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.” As Jerry Falwell once said, “God almighty created men and women biologically different and with differing needs and roles.” In 1982 only 35 states had ratified the ERA. The bill eventually died. Women finally gained equal rights as men, because of how much women had been working for their freedom.
Betty Friedman organized a massive women’s strike in New York. She planned a march of more than 35 thousand women down Fifth Avenue. A march like this also happened back in the 20’s. “Betty asked secretaries to put covers on their typewriters, telephone operators to plug their switchboards, waitresses to stop serving meals, cleaning women to put up their mops, and for wives to stop cooking,” said one historian that helped the organizing of the march in the 70s. Many of the women in the march carried signs that said, “I AM NOT A BARBIE DOLL,” or, “DON’T CALL ME DOLL, CHICK, GIRL, OR BROAD.” Although some women wanted freedom, others were just fine with what they had. Women from the ERA believed, “It is unnecessary because women were already protected under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.” As Jerry Falwell once said, “God almighty created men and women biologically different and with differing needs and roles.” In 1982 only 35 states had ratified the ERA. The bill eventually died. Women finally gained equal rights as men, because of how much women had been working for their freedom.
