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    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...
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    which granted women the right to vote, NOW officially sponsored the Women's Strike for Equality, a nationwide demonstration for women's rights. Approximately...
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    Betty Friedan (category Presidents of the National Organization for Women)
    nationwide Women's Strike for Equality on August 26, the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right...
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  • Women's strike may refer to: Women's Strike for Equality (1970) 1975 Icelandic women's strike All-Poland Women's Strike - Strajk kobiet (since 2016) International...
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  • be International Women's Year. A representative from a women's group called the Redstockings [is] put forward the idea of a strike as one of the events...
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    proclamation granting American women the constitutional right to vote. In 1971, following the 1970 nationwide Women's Strike for Equality, and again in 1973, as...
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    Procession (1913) Women's liberation movement (1960s-1980s) Miss America protest (1968) Women's Strike for Equality (1970) March for the Equal Rights Amendment...
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  • rare footage of the Women's Strike for Equality, the gender equality protest of August 26, 1970, where more than fifty thousand women and men gathered in...
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  • Aileen Hernandez (category Presidents of the National Organization for Women)
    found NOW. As its second president, she helped organize the Women's Strike for Equality and testified in front of a congressional subcommittee on the...
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    and gender anxiety in television news coverage of the 1970 women's strike for equality". Communication Studies. 50 (2): 143–57. doi:10.1080/10510979909388481...
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    1970. The strike, led by Rose Boland, Eileen Pullen, Vera Sime, Gwen Davis, Violet Dawson, and Sheila Douglass, began on 7 June 1968, when women sewing machinists...
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    Bralessness (category Women's underwear)
    and Gender Anxiety in Television News Coverage of the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality". Communication Studies. 50 (2): 143–157. doi:10.1080/10510979909388481...
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  • Jane Collective. The documentary ends with coverage of the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality and the lasting accomplishments of the movement. It features...
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  • The fiftieth anniversary of American women being able to vote is marked by a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality. 1972 – The Games of the XX Olympiad...
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    theme of "Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030", calling for gender equality around the globe. In the United States, the strike was branded...
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    Germaine Greer (category 20th-century Australian women writers)
    Sexual Politics was published in New York; on 26 August the Women's Strike for Equality was held throughout the United States; and on 31 August Millett's...
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  • Miss America protest (category 1968 in women's history)
    and gender anxiety in television news coverage of the 1970 women's strike for equality". Communication Studies. 50 (2): 143–57. doi:10.1080/10510979909388481...
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    Equal Rights Amendment (category History of women's rights in the United States)
    women held a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality protest to demand full social, economic, and political equality. Said Betty Friedan of the strike...
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    Bra (category Women's clothing)
    and Gender Anxiety in Television News Coverage of the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality". Communication Studies. 50 (2): 143–157. doi:10.1080/10510979909388481...
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    World Conference on Women in 1975. One of the most notable demonstrations they participated in was the Women's Strike for Equality march because of the...
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    Hundreds of thousands of Swiss women went on strike to protest gender inequalities on 14 June 2019. The women's strike (Frauenstreik in German and Grève...
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  • List of rallies and protest marches in Washington, D.C. (category All articles with bare URLs for citations)
    for All – Thousands march to call attention to the recent deaths of unarmed African American men at the hands of police. August 26 – Women's Equality...
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    pickets brought out thousands, sometimes millions; Friedan's Women's Strike for Equality (1970) was a nationwide success. The movement was split into...
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    organized a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality that day, and presented the sympathetic Senate leadership with a petition for the Equal Rights Amendment...
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    The Women's Strike for Equality took place on Fifth Avenue in New York City, with an estimated 25,000 marchers demonstrating in favor of equal pay for equal...
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    Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators. August 26 – The Women's Strike For Equality takes place down Fifth Avenue in New York...
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  • Timeline of second-wave feminism (category Timelines of women in history)
    suffrage in the U.S., tens of thousands of women across the nation participated in the Women's Strike for Equality, organized by Betty Friedan and thought...
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    Sarah Chapman (category 1888 in women's history)
    Bryant & May matchgirls' strike. Chapman and others involved in the strike have since been recognised as "pioneers of sex equality and fairness at work who...
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  • perspective of common people. Most of those interviewed were ordinary men and women who closely witnessed various events and who give personal accounts of the...
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    Kate Millett (category National Organization for Women people)
    and coverage on the three network's news programs about the Women's Strike for Equality event that summer. Millett used psychology, anthropology, the...
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