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Milestones in working women's legal history.(3 COUNTERING STEREOTYPES BY CHANGING THE RULES)
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Regional Review
- Article date:
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January 1, 2005
- Author:
- Hershbein, Brad
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1920 Women receive the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment
1923 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) first proposed by the National Women's Party
1932 The National Recovery Act allows only one person per family to hold a government job; many women are fired
1948 In Goesaert v. Cleary, the Supreme Court upholds a Michigan law that prohibits women from working in certain occupations (such as bartenders) on account of protecting morals
1963 Congress passes the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, barring wage discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, and ethnicity
1964 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, Title VII of which forbids ...