Womens liberation

Women's Liberation Movement march, 1971 – in pictures

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"Women Unite" - Women march down Fifth Avenue on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted the women the right to vote, September, 1970. Photo credit: John Olson / Time & Life / Getty — in New York, NY.

WOMEN'S LIBERATION PARADE ON 5TH AVENUE, 8/26/71. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

Today is Equal Pay Day, which commemorates the movement to close the ever-present gender wage gap. Here's a brief photo history of this ongoing fight, which has been brewing for many, many decades.

Women in Parade Down 5th Avenue on the 50th Anniversary of the Passage of the 19th Amendment, New York, 1970 -Photograph by John Olsen The Women’s Strike for Equality was a strike which took place in the United States on August 26, 1970. It celebrated the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, which effectively gave American women the right to vote. The rally was sponsored by the National Organization for Women (NOW). More than 20,000 women gathered for the protest in…

The third part of our activity series, for high level students, focuses on the influence of the civil rights movement on the women’s liberation movement.

In the late 1960s through the 1980s, women activists across the nation joined together to demand gender equality and to stand up in the face of a sexist and oppressive patriarchy.

Women’s Liberation Is Gonna Get Your Mama and Your Sister and Your Girlfriend, 1971 Celestial Arts (Established 1963, San Francisco), © Celestial Arts Untitled, ca. 1975 October Graphics (Active 1970s, Buffalo, New York), © October Graphics Over the years, as an activist working to develop the field of women’s studies (now most often called gender […]