The Time is NOW: The National Organization for Women’s Impact on Women in America.
Priscilla Diaz
12th grade History
East Side Community High School
The Time is NOW: The National Organization for Women’s Impact on Women in America.
“Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think it’s time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cause if we don’t we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one”
― Tupac Shakur
In the 1960s, Second-wave feminism emerged in a political movement known as the Women’s Liberation Movement. Women were cast under the shadows of men because many believed their sole purpose in society was to cater to them and their needs. Betty Friedan, a women rights activist, founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in order to take action by creating domestic equality as well as equality in the work place. In 1966, NOW became a revolutionary organization that fought for equal rights in all aspects of the social realm. NOW played a big role in starting the Women’s Liberation Movement and influenced the actions of other feminist movements. During the mid-20th century, Betty Friedan emerged as a prominent writer, feminist and women’s rights activist. She published book, The Feminine Mystique in 1963, which explored the idea of women finding personal fulfillment within themselves instead of what society saw as their traditional gender roles. Traditionally, American women were believed to be domestic caregivers. Their place was in the home, to clean, cook and watch over their children. In her book, Friedan revealed the “problem with no name” that many women seemed to have trouble with1. The problem was that women were excluded from opportunities and could not develop their own identities. The “problem with no name” was a
12th grade History
East Side Community High School
The Time is NOW: The National Organization for Women’s Impact on Women in America.
“Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think it’s time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cause if we don’t we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one”
― Tupac Shakur
In the 1960s, Second-wave feminism emerged in a political movement known as the Women’s Liberation Movement. Women were cast under the shadows of men because many believed their sole purpose in society was to cater to them and their needs. Betty Friedan, a women rights activist, founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in order to take action by creating domestic equality as well as equality in the work place. In 1966, NOW became a revolutionary organization that fought for equal rights in all aspects of the social realm. NOW played a big role in starting the Women’s Liberation Movement and influenced the actions of other feminist movements. During the mid-20th century, Betty Friedan emerged as a prominent writer, feminist and women’s rights activist. She published book, The Feminine Mystique in 1963, which explored the idea of women finding personal fulfillment within themselves instead of what society saw as their traditional gender roles. Traditionally, American women were believed to be domestic caregivers. Their place was in the home, to clean, cook and watch over their children. In her book, Friedan revealed the “problem with no name” that many women seemed to have trouble with1. The problem was that women were excluded from opportunities and could not develop their own identities. The “problem with no name” was a