Timeline of Women's Legal Rights and Sociological Implications in America, Study notes of Creative writing

Download Timeline of Women's Legal Rights and Sociological Implications in America and more Study notes Creative writing in PDF only on Docsity! Women in American Society Sociology/Women’s Studies 155a Women and the Law: A Timeline 1954-1972 1955: Rosa Parks 1963: Equal Pay Act 1964: Title VII 1965: SC assures married couples nationwide access to contraception 1966: NOW founded 1968: EO prohibits sex discrimination requires affirmative action plans for hiring women 1969: SC requires once all-male positions open to qualified Women California adopts 1st no-fault divorce law 1967: SC Okays Inter-Racial Marriages 1972 Title IX CEDAW • Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women • “an international bill of rights for women” • ensure elimination of all acts of discrimination against women by persons, organizations or enterprises Women and the Law: A Timeline 1981-1993 1981: SC rules that excluding women from the draft is constitutional. •overturns state laws designating a husband “head and master” 1986: SC held that a hostile or abusive work environment can prove discrimination based on sex. 1987: SC rules CAN take sex and race into account…even where there is no proven history of discrimination … [if] imbalance exists in the # of women or minorities 1989: SC says ok for states to deny public funding for abortions; including not having them available in public hospitals 1993: SC rules that the victim did not need to show that she suffered physical or serious psychological injury as a result of sexual harassment. •**FMLA goes into effect** Women and the Law: A Timeline 1994-2000 1994: Gender Equity in Education Act; Violence Against Women Act 1996: VMI male only admissions policy violates the Fourteenth Amendment •US Women Sweep Olympics; attributed to 1972 Title IX changes in sports availability for women 1997: SC rules college athletics programs must actively involve roughly equal numbers of men and women to qualify for federal support 2000: SC invalidates portions of the Violence Against Women Act permitting victims of rape, domestic violence, etc. to sue their attackers in federal court