Abstract
In the last decade and a half, the movement for the equality of women in American society has been growing in support, in action, and in results. Perhaps unparalleled even by the significant strides of the 1920's, the contemporary women's liberation movement found its roots, according to Freeman (1973a, 1973b), in three primary events of the early 1960's: the establishment of the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1961, and its report released in 1963; the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique in 1963, and its subsequent widespread impact; and the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the resulting furor which developed as the consequence of the downplaying of the sex provision by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). While recent advancements have been
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