A Woman's Voice In The 1960s

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To what extent did the creation of a woman's voice in the 1960’s/1970's changed the course of history? due to an immense amount of persistence and fight.

Do you agree or disagree with the above statement?

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Women throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s indeed changed the course of history through their persistence and fighting spirit. This was mostly evident heavily shown through the women’s liberation movement where determination and perseverance a never give up attitude was portrayed through many events and movements which
This desire for a voice came from how women throughout the 1950’s were seen a substantially lower than men. This lack of equality was not taken lightly. During the war, women were given the traditional men’s jobs as the men were fighting in the war. This however changed when the men returned after the war and were given their jobs back. Women were then thrown back into their pink collar jobs. These were jobs such as waitresses, nurses and secretaries. Jobs such as these were also not paid as much either. This highly angered the women but was not their only reason for a desire for a woman's voice as things seen as basic rights nowadays were non-existent back then. This is seen through how divorce was something so difficult for women, in 1950’s, to do. This would have spiked the ongoing situation even more. The cherry on the top thou would have to have been the master laws which were laws that stated that men would always be the head of the
All the protests and never back down attitude allowed for women to gradually become more aware of their rights. Society at the time finally after thousands of years began to become aware of the sexual discrimination and began to see it in a negative manner. Acts were even past such as the Equal Pay act where men and women would finally get paid the same in the same job. Education was also changed through the implementation of the Educational Amendment Act which banned all forms of gender discrimination in education. There were some negatives though as even though women began to become aware of the problems they faced many people still negatively viewed the whole situation and therefore backed the conservative side. This allowed unfortunately for multiple forms of discrimination to actually continue. These about successes and failures truly show the gain in a voice and a step in the right direction even in a society very unwilling to