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Discrimination is treating one particular group of people less favorably than others because of their race, age, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or gender identity.

Gender discrimination is discrimination against a person or group on the grounds of sex or gender identity.

Private Life

Employment

Education

Political sphere

1848 First women’s Rights convention

1960 Birth control pills approved

1973 Right to safe and legal abortion

1986 Sexual Harassment Act

1963 Equal Pay Act1964 Civil Rights Act1978 Discrimination against pregnant women banned

Source: United States Department of Labor http://www.dol.gov/

It requires the employer to pay equal wages within the establishment to men and women doing equal work on jobs requiring equal skill, effort, and responsibility, which are performed under similar working conditions.

It prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Prohibits discrimination because of pregnancy:1.Employers cannot refuse to employ a woman because of pregnancy or terminate her2.They cannot force her to go on leave at an arbitrary point during pregnancy or penalize of pregnancy in reinstatement rights

1880The Women's Educational Equity Act (WEAA)

Goals:• promotion educational equality for women • authorized federal grants to develop and evaluate curricula and textbooks and to promote educational equity for disabled women and girls

1920 19 Amendment Act (the right to vote)1981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female justice

1997 Madeleine Albright becomes the first female United States Secretary of State

2005 Condoleezza Rice becomes the first female African American Secretary of State

•NOW 1.  1966 2. membership of 500,000

contributing members.3. consists of 550

chapters in all 50 U.S. states and the D.C.

1. 18692. membership of

300,000 contributing members.

3. consists of 250 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and the D.C.

•League of Women Voters (Before 1920-The National American Woman Suffrage Association)

1.Roe v. Wade (1973)2.Cleveland Bd. of Ed. V. LaFleur  (1974)3.Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986)

4.Johnson v. Transportation Agency (1987)

5.Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Serv., Inc. (1987)6.Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools (1992)7.Faragher v. City of Boca Raton (1998)8.Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education (1999)