Second-wave feminism

Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly
two decades. It took place throughout the Western world, and aimed to increase equality for women by
building on previous feminist gains.

Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality
(e.g., voting rights and property rights), second-wave feminism broadened the debate to include a wider
range of issues: sexuality, family, domesticity, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and
official legal inequalities.[1] It was a movement that was focused on critiquing the patriarchal, or male-
dominated, institutions and cultural practices throughout society.[2] Second-wave feminism also drew
attention to the issues of domestic violence and marital rape, created rape-crisis centers and women's
shelters, and brought about changes in custody laws and divorce law. Feminist-owned bookstores, credit
unions, and restaurants were among the key meeting spaces and economic engines of the movement.[3]

The term "second-wave feminism" itself was brought into common parlance by journalist Martha Lear in a
New York Times Magazine article in March 1968 titled "The Second Feminist Wave: What do These
Women Want?".[4] She wrote, "Proponents call it the Second Feminist Wave, the first having ebbed after
the glorious victory of suffrage and disappeared, finally, into the great sandbar of Togetherness."[4]: 3 23 

Many historians view the second-wave feminist era in America as ending in the early 1980s with the intra-
feminism disputes of the feminist sex wars over issues such as sexuality and pornography, which ushered in
the era of third-wave feminism in the early 1990s.[5]

Contents
Overview in the United States
"The Feminine Mystique"
Overview outside the United States
Germany
Spain
Sweden
The Netherlands
Beginning and consciousness raising
The liberal feminist movement
The radical feminist movement
Businesses
Music and popular culture
"I Am Woman"
Olivia Records
Women's music
Film
German-speaking Europe
 Association of women filmworkers of Germany
United States
Social changes
Use of birth control
Domestic violence and sexual harassment
Education
Title IX
Coeducation
Seven Sisters Colleges
Mississippi University for Women
Mills College
Other colleges
Criticism
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Overview in the United States

The second wave of feminism in the United States came as a delayed reaction against the renewed
domesticity of women after World War II: the late 1940s post-war boom, which was an era characterized
by an unprecedented economic growth, a baby boom, a move to family-oriented suburbs and the ideal of
companionate marriages. During this time, women did not tend to seek employment due to their
engagement with domestic and household duties, which was seen as their primary duty but often left them
isolated within the home and estranged from politics, economics, and law making. This life was clearly
illustrated by the media of the time; for example television shows such as Father Knows Best and Leave It
to Beaver idealized domesticity.[6]

Some important events laid the groundwork for the second wave, specifically the work of French writer
Simone de Beauvoir in the 1940s where she examined the notion of women being perceived as "other" in
the patriarchal society. Simone de Beauvoir is an existentialist, meaning she believed in the existence of the
individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the
will. She went on to conclude in her 1949 treatise The Second Sex that male-centered ideology was being
accepted as a norm and enforced by the ongoing development of myths, and that the fact that women are
capable of getting pregnant, lactating, and menstruating is in no way a valid cause or explanation to place
them as the "second sex".[7] This book was translated from French to English (with some of its text
excised) and published in America in 1953.[8]

In 1960, the Food and Drug Administration approved the combined oral contraceptive pill, which was
made available in 1961.[9] This made it easier for women to have careers without having to leave due to
unexpectedly becoming pregnant. It also meant young couples would not be routinely forced into
unwanted marriages due to accidental pregnancies.

Though it is widely accepted that the movement lasted from the 1960s into the early 1980s, the exact years
of the movement are more difficult to pinpoint and are often disputed. The movement is usually believed to
have begun in 1963, when Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, and President John F.
Kennedy's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women released its report on gender inequality.

The administration of President Kennedy made women's rights a External video

key issue of the New Frontier, and named women (such as Esther
Peterson) to many high-ranking posts in his administration.[11]
Kennedy also established a Presidential Commission on the
Status of Women, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt and comprising
cabinet officials (including Peterson and Attorney General Robert
F. Kennedy), senators, representatives, businesspeople,
psychologists, sociologists, professors, activists, and public
servants.[12] The report recommended changing this inequality by
providing paid maternity leave, greater access to education, and
help with child care to women.[13]

There were other actions by women in wider society, presaging

their wider engagement in politics which would come with the Prospects of Mankind with
second wave. In 1961, 50,000 women in 60 cities, mobilized by Eleanor Roosevelt; What Status For
Women Strike for Peace, protested above ground testing of Women? (http://openvault.wgbh.or
nuclear bombs and tainted milk.[14][15] g/catalog/V_285B9C3362534FFF8
494B95922E3240B), 59:07, 1962.
In 1963, Betty Friedan, influenced by Simone de Beauvoir's Eleanor Roosevelt, chair of the
ground-breaking, feminist The Second Sex, wrote the bestselling
Presidential Commission on the
book The Feminine Mystique. Discussing primarily white
Status of Women, interviews
women, she explicitly objected to how women were depicted in
the mainstream media, and how placing them at home (as President John F. Kennedy,
'housewives') limited their possibilities and wasted potential. She Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg
had helped conduct a very important survey using her old and others, Open Vault from
classmates from Smith College. This survey revealed that the WGBH[10]
women who played a role at home and the workforce were more
satisfied with their life compared with the women who stayed
home. The women who stayed home showed feelings of agitation
and sadness. She concluded that many of these unhappy women
had immersed themselves in the idea that they should not have any
ambitions outside their home.[13] Friedan described this as "The
Problem That Has No Name".[16] The perfect nuclear family image
depicted and strongly marketed at the time, she wrote, did not
reflect happiness and was rather degrading for women.[17] This American Association of University
book is widely credited with having begun second-wave feminism Women members with President
in the United States.[18] John F. Kennedy as he signs the
Equal Pay Act into law in 1963
The report from the Presidential Commission on the Status of
Women, along with Friedan's book, spoke to the discontent of
many women (especially housewives) and led to the formation of local, state, and federal government
women's groups along with many independent feminist organizations. Friedan was referencing a
"movement" as early as 1964.[19]

The movement grew with legal victories such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, and the Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court ruling of 1965. In 1966 Friedan joined other
women and men to found the National Organization for Women (NOW); Friedan would be named as the
organization's first president.[20]
Despite the early successes NOW achieved under Friedan's leadership, her decision to pressure the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to use Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to enforce
more job opportunities among American women met with fierce opposition within the organization.[20]
Siding with arguments among several of the group's African-American members,[20] many of NOW's
leaders were convinced that the vast number of male African-Americans who lived below the poverty line
were in need of more job opportunities than women within the middle and upper class.[21] Friedan stepped
down as president in 1969.[22]

In 1963, freelance journalist Gloria Steinem gained widespread popularity among feminists after a diary she
authored while working undercover as a Playboy Bunny waitress at the Playboy Club was published as a
two-part feature in the May and June issues of Show.[23] In her diary, Steinem alleged the club was
mistreating its waitresses in order to gain male customers and exploited the Playboy Bunnies as symbols of
male chauvinism, noting that the club's manual instructed the Bunnies that "there are many pleasing ways
they can employ to stimulate the club's liquor volume".[23] By 1968, Steinem had become arguably the
most influential figure in the movement and support for legalized abortion and federally funded day-cares
had become the two leading objectives for feminists.[24]

Among the most significant legal victories of the movement after the formation of NOW were a 1967
Executive Order extending full affirmative action rights to women, a 1968 EEOC decision ruling illegal
sex-segregated help wanted ads, Title IX and the Women's Educational Equity Act (1972 and 1974,
respectively, educational equality), Title X (1970, health and family planning), the Equal Credit
Opportunity Act (1974), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, the outlawing of marital rape
(although not outlawed in all states until 1993[25]), and the legalization of no-fault divorce (although not
legalized in all states until 2010[26]), a 1975 law requiring the U.S. Military Academies to admit women,
and many Supreme Court cases such as Reed v. Reed of 1971 and Roe v. Wade of 1973. However, the
changing of social attitudes towards women is usually considered the greatest success of the women's
movement. In January 2013, US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the longtime ban on
women serving in US military combat roles had been lifted.[27]

In 2013, the US Department of Defense (DoD) announced their plan to integrate women into all combat
positions by 2016.[27]

Second-wave feminism also affected other movements, such as the civil rights movement and the student's
rights movement, as women sought equality within them. In 1965 in "Sex and Caste," a reworking of a
memo they had written as staffers in civil-rights organizations SNCC, Casey Hayden and Mary King
proposed that "assumptions of male superiority are as widespread and deep rooted and every much as
crippling to the woman as the assumptions of white supremacy are to the Negro," and that in the
movement, as in society, women can find themselves "caught up in a common-law caste system."[28][29]

In June 1967, Jo Freeman attended a "free school" course on women at the University of Chicago led by
Heather Booth[30] and Naomi Weisstein. She invited them to organize a woman's workshop at the then-
forthcoming National Conference of New Politics (NCNP), to be held over Labor Day weekend 1967 in
Chicago. At that conference, a woman's caucus was formed (led by Freeman and Shulamith Firestone),
who tried to present their own demands to the plenary session.[31] However, the women were told their
resolution was not important enough for a floor discussion, and when through threatening to tie up the
convention with procedural motions they succeeded in having their statement tacked to the end of the
agenda, it was never discussed.[32] When the National Conference for New Politics (NCNP) Director
William F. Pepper refused to recognize any of the women waiting to speak and instead called on someone
to speak about American Indians, five women, including Firestone, rushed the podium demanding to know
why.[32] But Willam F. Pepper allegedly patted Firestone on the head and said, "Move on little girl; we
have more important issues to talk about here than women's liberation", or possibly, "Cool down, little girl.
We have more important things to talk about than women's problems."[31][32] Freeman and Firestone called
a meeting of the women who had been at the "free school" course and the women's workshop at the
conference; this became the first Chicago women's liberation group. It was known as the Westside group
because it met weekly in Freeman's apartment on Chicago's west side. After a few months, Freeman started
a newsletter which she called Voice of the women's liberation movement. It circulated all over the country
(and in a few foreign countries), giving the new movement of women's liberation its name. Many of the
women in the Westside group went on to start other feminist organizations, including the Chicago Women's
Liberation Union.

In 1968, an SDS organizer at the University of Washington told a meeting about white college men
working with poor white men, and "[h]e noted that sometimes after analyzing societal ills, the men shared
leisure time by 'balling a chick together.' He pointed out that such activities did much to enhance the
political consciousness of poor white youth. A woman in the audience asked, 'And what did it do for the
consciousness of the chick?' " (Hole, Judith, and Ellen Levine, Rebirth of Feminism, 1971, pg. 120).[32]
After the meeting, a handful of women formed Seattle's first women's liberation group.[32]

Some black feminists who were active in the early second-wave feminism include civil rights lawyer and
author Florynce Kennedy, who co-authored one of the first books on abortion, 1971's Abortion Rap;
Cellestine Ware, of New York's Stanton-Anthony Brigade; and Patricia Robinson. These women "tried to
show the connections between racism and male dominance" in society.

The Indochinese Women's Conferences (IWC) in Vancouver and Toronto in 1971, demonstrated the
interest of a multitude of women's groups in the Vietnam Antiwar movement. Lesbian groups, women of
color, and Vietnamese groups saw their interests mirrored in the anti-imperialist spirit of the conference.
Although the IWC used a Canadian venue, membership was primarily composed of American groups.[33]

The second wave of the feminist movement also marks the emergence of women's studies as a legitimate
field of study. In 1970, San Diego State University was the first university in the United States to offer a
selection of women's studies courses.[34]

The 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas, presented an opportunity for women's
liberation groups to address a multitude of women's issues. At the conference, delegates from around the
country gathered to create a National Plan of Action,[35] which offered 26 planks on matters such as
women's health, women's employment, and child care.[36]

By the early 1980s, it was largely perceived that women had met their goals and succeeded in changing
social attitudes towards gender roles, repealing oppressive laws that were based on sex, integrating the
"boys' clubs" such as military academies, the United States Armed Forces, NASA, single-sex colleges,
men's clubs, and the Supreme Court, and making gender discrimination illegal. However, in 1982, adding
the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution failed, having been ratified by only 35
states, leaving it three states short of ratification.[37]

Second-wave feminism was largely successful, with the failure of the ratification of the Equal Rights
Amendment and Nixon's veto of the Comprehensive Child Development Bill of 1972 (which would have
provided a multibillion-dollar national day care system) the only major legislative defeats. Efforts to ratify
the Equal Rights Amendment have continued. Ten states have adopted constitutions or constitutional
amendments providing that equal rights under the law shall not be denied because of sex, and most of these
provisions mirror the broad language of the Equal Rights Amendment. Furthermore, many women's groups
are still active and are major political forces. As of 2011, more women earn bachelor's degrees than
men,[38] half of the Ivy League presidents are women, the numbers of women in government and
traditionally male-dominated fields have dramatically increased, and in 2009 the percentage of women in
the American workforce temporarily surpassed that of men.[39] The salary of the average American woman
has also increased over time, although as of 2008 it is only 77% of the average man's salary, a phenomenon
often referred to as the gender pay gap.[40] Whether this is due to
discrimination is very hotly disputed, however economists and sociologists
have provided evidence to that effect.[41][42][43]

Second-wave feminism ended in the early 1980s with the feminist sex
wars[44] and was succeeded by third-wave feminism in the early 1990s.[45]

"The Feminine Mystique"

Betty Friedan published "The Feminine Mystique[46]" in the United States
in 1963 and set a new standard and gender roles for women. Friedan
argued that the feminine mystique hurt women both personally and
professionally. The feminine mystique described the persuasive
Alice Paul wrote the Equal
dissatisfaction among women in mainstream American society. Friedan Rights Amendment, whose
coined the term feminine mystique to describe the societal assumption that passage became an
women could find fulfillment through housework, marriage, child-rearing, unachieved goal of the
and sexual passivity alone. Friedan noted that many housewives were feminist movement in the
unsatisfied with their lives but had difficulty articulating their feelings, and 1970s.
she used statistics and interviews to illustrate women's desire to achieve the
feminine mystique. The feminine mystique was one of many catalysts for
the second-wave-feminism.[46] Friedan's thesis was that women suffered a variety of
more or less subtle forms of discrimination and victims of a pervasive system of false
values under which they were urged to fund fulfillment and identity through the
husbands and housework. Friedan believes that education and only education saved
American women from the dangers of the feminine mystique.

Overview outside the United States Betty Friedan

"The Feminine
Mystique"
In 1967, at the International Alliance of Women Congress held in London, delegates
were made aware of an initiative by the UN Commission on the Status of Women to
study and evaluate the situation of women in their countries. Many organizations and NGOs like the
Association of Business and Professional Women, Soroptimists Clubs, as well as teaching and nursing
associations developed committees in response to the initiative to prepare evaluations on the conditions of
women and urge their governments to establish National Commissions on the Status of Women.[47]

In Turkey[48][49] and Israel,[50] second-wave feminism began in the 1980s.

Germany

Also see below in this article under Film

During the 1960s several German feminist groups were founded, which were characterized as the second
wave.[51]

Spain

The 1960s in Spain saw a generational shift in Spanish feminist in response to other changes in Spanish
society. This included increased emigration and tourism (resulting in the spread of ideas from the rest of the
world), greater opportunities in education and employment for women and major economic reforms.[52]
Feminism in the late Franco period and early transition period was not unified. It had many different
political dimensions, however, they all shared a belief in the need for greater equality for women in Spain
and a desire to defend the rights of women.[53] Feminism moved from being about the individual to being
about the collective.[54] It was during this period that second-wave feminism arrived in Spain.[52][55]

Second-wave Spanish feminism was about the struggle for the rights of women in the context of the
dictatorship. PCE would start in 1965 to promote this movement with MDM, creating a feminist political
orientation around building solidarity for women and assisting imprisoned political figures. MDM launched
its movement in Madrid by establishing associations among the housewives of the Tetuán and Getafe in
1969. In 1972, Asociación Castellana de Amas de Casa y Consumidora was created to widen the group's
ability to attract members.[52]

Second-wave feminism entered the Spanish comic community by the early 1970s. It was manifested in
Spanish comics in two ways. The first was that it increased the number of women involved in comics
production as writers and artists. The second was it transformed how female characters were portrayed,
making women less passive and less likely to be purely sexual beings.[56]

Sweden
See also Feminism in Sweden

In Sweden, second-wave feminism is mostly associated with Group 8, a feminist organization which was
founded by eight women in Stockholm in 1968.[57]

The organization took up various feminist issues such as demands for expansions of kindergartens, 6-hour
working day, equal pay for equal work and opposition to pornography. Initially based in Stockholm, local
groups were founded throughout the country. The influence of Group 8 on feminism in Sweden is still
prevalent.

The Netherlands

In 1967, "The Discontent of Women", by Joke Kool-Smits, was published;[58] the publication of this essay
is often regarded as the start of second-wave feminism in the Netherlands.[59] In this essay, Smit describes
the frustration of married women, saying they are fed up being solely mothers and housewives.

Beginning and consciousness raising

The beginnings of second-wave feminism can be studied by looking at the two branches that the movement
formed in: the liberal feminists and the radical feminists. The liberal feminists, led by figures such as Betty
Friedan and Gloria Steinem advocated for federal legislation to be passed that would promote and enhance
the personal and professional lives of women.[60] On the other hand, radical feminists, such as Casey
Hayden and Mary King, adopted the skills and lessons that they had learned from their work with civil
rights organizations such as the Students for a Democratic Society and Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee and created a platform to speak on the violent and sexist issues women faced while working
with the larger Civil Rights Movement.[61]

The liberal feminist movement

After being removed from the workforce, by either personal or social pressures, many women in the post-
war America returned to the home or were placed into female only jobs in the service sector.[62] After the
publication of Friedan's The Feminine Mystique in 1963, many women connected to the feeling of isolation
and dissatisfaction that the book detailed. The book itself, however, was not a call to action, but rather a
plea for self-realization and consciousness raising among middle-class women throughout America.[63]
Many of these women organized to form the National Organization for Women in 1966, whose "Statement
of Purpose" declared that the right women had to equality was one small part of the nationwide civil rights
revolution that was happening during the 1960s.[64]

The radical feminist movement

Women who favoured radical feminism collectively spoke of being forced to remain silent and obedient to
male leaders in New Left organizations. They spoke out about how they were not only told to do clerical
work such as stuffing envelopes and typing speeches, but there was also an expectation for them to sleep
with the male activists that they worked with.[65] While these acts of sexual harassment took place, the
young women were neglected their right to have their own needs and desires recognized by their male
cohorts.[65] Many radical feminists had learned from these organizations how to think radically about their
self-worth and importance, and applied these lessons in the relationships they had with each other.[66]

Businesses
Feminist activists have established a range of feminist businesses, including women's bookstores, feminist
credit unions, feminist presses, feminist mail-order catalogs, feminist restaurants, and feminist record labels.
These businesses flourished as part of the second and third waves of feminism in the 1970s, 1980s, and
1990s.[67][68]

In West Berlin sixteen projects emerged within three years (1974–76)[69] all without state funding (except
the women's shelter). Many of those new concepts the social economy picked up later, some are still run
autonomously today.[70][71]

Music and popular culture

Second-wave feminists viewed popular culture as sexist, and created pop culture of their own to counteract
this. "One project of second wave feminism was to create 'positive' images of women, to act as a
counterweight to the dominant images circulating in popular culture and to raise women's consciousness of
their oppressions."[72]

"I Am Woman"

Australian artist Helen Reddy's song "I Am Woman" played a large role in popular culture and became a
feminist anthem; Reddy came to be known as a "feminist poster girl" or a "feminist icon".[72] Reddy told
interviewers that the song was a "song of pride about being a woman".[73] The song was released in 1972.
A few weeks after "I Am Woman" entered the charts, radio stations refused to play it. Some music critics
and radio stations believed the song represented "all that is silly in the Women's Lib Movement".[74] Helen
Reddy then began performing the song on numerous television variety shows. As the song gained
popularity, women began calling radio stations and requesting to hear "I Am Woman" played. The song re-
entered the charts and reached number one in December 1972.[75][72][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83] "I Am
Woman" also became a protest song that women sang at feminist rallies and protests.[84]
Olivia Records

In 1973, a group of five feminists created the first women's owned-and-operated record label, called Olivia
Records.[85] They created the record label because they were frustrated that major labels were slow to add
female artists to their rosters. One of Olivia's founders, Judy Dlugacz, said that, "It was a chance to create
opportunities for women artists within an industry which at that time had few."[86] Initially, they had a
budget of $4,000, and relied on donations to keep Olivia Records alive. With these donations, Olivia
Records created their first LP, an album of feminist songs entitled I Know You Know.[87] The record label
originally relied on volunteers and feminist bookstores to distribute their records, but after a few years their
records began to be sold in mainstream record stores.[86]

Olivia Records was so successful that the company relocated from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles in
1975.[87] Olivia Records released several records and albums, and their popularity grew.[85] As their
popularity grew, an alternative, specialized music industry grew around it. This type of music was initially
referred to as "lesbian music" but came to be known as "women's music".[85] However, although Olivia
Records was initially meant for women, in the 1980s it tried to move away from that stereotype and
encouraged men to listen to their music as well.[86]

Women's music

Women's music consisted of female musicians combined music with politics to express feminist ideals.[88]
Cities throughout the United States began to hold Women's Music Festivals, all consisting of female artists
singing their own songs about personal experiences.[89] The first Women's Music Festival was held in 1974
at the University of Illinois.[89] In 1979, the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival attracted 10,000 women
from across America.[89] These festivals encouraged already-famous female singers, such as Laura Nyro
and Ellen McIllwaine, to begin writing and producing their own songs instead of going through a major
record label.[89] Many women began performing hard rock music, a traditionally male-dominated genre.
One of the most successful examples included the sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, who formed the famous
hard rock band Heart.[13]

Film

German-speaking Europe

The Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin gave women a chance in film in Germany: from 1968 on
one third of the students were female. Some of them - pioneers of the women's movement - produced
feminist feature films: Helke Sander in 1971 produced "Eine Prämie für Irene" [A Reward for Irene], and
Cristina Perincioli (although she was Swiss not German) in 1971 produced "Für Frauen – 1.Kap" [For
Women – 1st Chapter].

In West Germany Helma Sanders-Brahms and Claudia von Alemann produced feminist documentaries
from 1970 on.

In 1973 Claudia von Alemann and Helke Sander organized the 1. Internationale Frauen-Filmseminar in
Berlin.

In 1974 Helke Sander founded the journal Frauen und Film – a first feminist filmjournal, which she edited
until 1981.
In the 1970s in West Germany, women directors produced a whole series of Frauenfilm - films focusing on
women's personal emancipation. In the 1980s the Goethe Institute brought a collection of German women's
films in every corner of the world.
"...here the term 'feminist filmmaking' does function to point to a
filmmaking practice defining itself outside the masculine mirror. German feminism is one of the most active
women's movements in Europe. It has gained access to television; engendered a spectrum of journals, a
publishing house and a summer women's university in Berlin; inspired a whole group of filmmakers; ..."
writes Marc Silberman in Jump Cut.[90] But most of the women filmmakers did not see themselves as
feminists, except Helke Sander[91] and Cristina Perincioli. Perincioli stated in an interview: "Fight first ...
before making beautiful art".[92] There, she explains how she develops and shoots the film together with
the women concerned: saleswomen, battered wives - and why she prefers to work with an all female team.
Camera women were still so rare in the 1970 that she had to find them in Denmark and France. Working
with an all women film crew Perincioli encouraged women to learn these then male dominated professions.

Association of women filmworkers of Germany

In 1979, German women filmworkers formed the Association of women filmworkers[93] which was active
for a few years. In 2014, a new attempt with Proquote Film (then as Proquote Regie[94]) turned out to be
successful and effective.
A study by the University of Rostock shows that 42% of the graduates of film
schools are female, but only 22% of the German feature films are staged by a woman director and are
usually financially worse equipped. Similarly, women are disadvantaged in the other male-dominated film
trades, where men even without education are preferred to the female graduates.[95]
The initiative points
out that the introduction of a quota system in Sweden has brought the proportion of women in key positions
in film production around the same as the population share.[96] As a result, the Swedish initiative calls also
for a parity of film funding bodies and the implementation of a gradual women's quota for the allocation of
film and television directing jobs in order to achieve a gender-equitable distribution. This should reflect the
plurality of a modern society, because diversity can not be guaranteed if more than 80% of all films are
produced by men.
ProQuote Film is the third initiative with which women with a high share in their
industry are fighting for more female executives and financial resources (see Pro Quote Medien (2012) and
Quote Medizin).

United States

In the US, both the creation and subjects of motion pictures began to reflect second-wave feminist
ideals,[97] leading to the development of feminist film theory. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, female
filmmakers that were involved in part of the new wave of feminist film included Joan Micklin Silver
(Between the Lines), Claudia Weill (Girlfriends), Stephanie Rothman, and Susan Seidelman (Smithereens,
Desperately Seeking Susan).[98][99] Other notable films that explored feminist subject matters that were
made at this time include the film adaptation of Lois Gould's novel Such Good Friends and Rosemary's
Baby.[100]

The documentary She's Beautiful When She's Angry was the first documentary film to cover feminism's
second wave.[101]

Social changes

Use of birth control

Finding a need to talk about the advantage of the Food and Drug Administration passing their approval for
the use of birth control in 1960, liberal feminists took action in creating panels and workshops with the goal
to promote conscious raising among sexually active women. These workshops also brought attention to
issues such as venereal diseases and safe abortion.[102] Radical feminists also joined this push to raise
awareness among sexually active women. While supporting the "Free Love Movement" of the late 1960s
and early 1970s, young women on college campuses distributed pamphlets on birth control, sexual
diseases, abortion, and cohabitation.[103]

While white women were concerned with obtaining birth control for all, women of color were at risk of
sterilization because of these same medical and social advances: "Native American, African American, and
Latina groups documented and publicized sterilization abuses in their communities in the 1960s and 70s,
showing that women had been sterilized without their knowledge or consent... In the 1970s, a group of
women... founded the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse (CESA) to stop this racist population control
policy begun by the federal government in the 1940s – a policy that had resulted in the sterilization of over
one-third of all women of child-bearing age in Puerto Rico."[104] The use of forced sterilization
disproportionately affected women of color and women from lower socioeconomic statuses. Sterilization
was often done under the ideology of eugenics. Thirty states within the United States authorized legal
sterilizations under eugenic sciences.[105]

Domestic violence and sexual harassment

The second-wave feminist movement also took a strong stance against physical violence and sexual assault
in both the home and the workplace. In 1968, NOW successfully lobbied the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission to pass an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which
prevented discrimination based on sex in the workplace.[106] This attention to women's rights in the
workplace also prompted the EEOC to add sexual harassment to its "Guidelines on Discrimination",
therefore giving women the right to report their bosses and coworkers for acts of sexual assault.

Domestic violence, such as battery and rape, were rampant in post-war America. Married women were
often abused by their husbands, and as late as 1975 domestic battery and rape were both socially acceptable
and legal as women were seen to be the possessions of their husbands.[107] Because of activists in the
second-wave feminist movement, and the local law enforcement agencies that they worked with, by 1982
three hundred shelters and forty-eight state coalitions had been established to provide protection and
services for women who had been abused by male figures in their lives.[108]

Education

Title IX

Coeducation

One debate which developed in the United States during this time period revolved around the question of
coeducation. Most men's colleges in the United States adopted coeducation, often by merging with
women's colleges. In addition, some women's colleges adopted coeducation, while others maintained a
single-sex student body.

Seven Sisters Colleges

Two of the Seven Sister colleges made transitions during and after the 1960s. The first, Radcliffe College,
merged with Harvard University. Beginning in 1963, students at Radcliffe received Harvard diplomas
signed by the presidents of Radcliffe and Harvard and joint commencement exercises began in 1970. The
same year, several Harvard and Radcliffe dormitories began swapping students experimentally and in 1972
full co-residence was instituted. The departments of athletics of both schools merged shortly thereafter. In
1977, Harvard and Radcliffe signed an agreement which put undergraduate women entirely in Harvard
College. In 1999, Radcliffe College was dissolved and Harvard University assumed full responsibility over
the affairs of female undergraduates. Radcliffe is now the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in
Women's Studies at Harvard University.

The second, Vassar College, declined an offer to merge with Yale University and instead became
coeducational in 1969.

The remaining Seven Sisters decided against coeducation. Mount Holyoke College engaged in a lengthy
debate under the presidency of David Truman over the issue of coeducation. On November 6, 1971, "after
reviewing an exhaustive study on coeducation, the board of trustees decided unanimously that Mount
Holyoke should remain a women's college, and a group of faculty was charged with recommending
curricular changes that would support the decision."[109] Smith College also made a similar decision in
1971.[110]

In 1969, Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College (then all male) developed a system of sharing
residential colleges. When Haverford became coeducational in 1980, Bryn Mawr discussed the possibly of
coeducation as well, but decided against it.[111] In 1983, Columbia University began admitting women
after a decade of failed negotiations with Barnard College for a merger along the lines of Harvard and
Radcliffe (Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia since 1900, but it continues to be independently
governed). Wellesley College also decided against coeducation during this time.

Mississippi University for Women

In 1982, in a 5–4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan
that the Mississippi University for Women would be in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal
Protection Clause if it denied admission to its nursing program on the basis of gender. Mississippi
University for Women, the first public or government institution for women in the United States, changed
its admissions policies and became coeducational after the ruling.[112]

In what was her first opinion written for the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, "In
limited circumstances, a gender-based classification favoring one sex can be justified if it intentionally and
directly assists members of the sex that is disproportionately burdened." She went on to point out that there
are a disproportionate number of women who are nurses, and that denying admission to men "lends
credibility to the old view that women, not men, should become nurses, and makes the assumption that
nursing is a field for women a self-fulfilling prophecy".[113]

In the dissenting opinions, Justices Harry A. Blackmun, Warren E. Burger, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and
William H. Rehnquist suggested that the result of this ruling would be the elimination of publicly supported
single-sex educational opportunities. This suggestion has proven to be accurate as there are no public
women's colleges in the United States today and, as a result of United States v. Virginia, the last all-male
public university in the United States, Virginia Military Institute, was required to admit women. The ruling
did not require the university to change its name to reflect its coeducational status and it continues a
tradition of academic and leadership development for women by providing liberal arts and professional
education to women and men.[114]
Mills College

On May 3, 1990, the Trustees of Mills College announced that they had voted to admit male students.[115]
This decision led to a two-week student and staff strike, accompanied by numerous displays of nonviolent
protests by the students.[116][117] At one point, nearly 300 students blockaded the administrative offices
and boycotted classes.[118] On May 18, the Trustees met again to reconsider the decision,[119] leading
finally to a reversal of the vote.[120]

Other colleges

Sarah Lawrence College declined an offer to merge with Princeton University, becoming coeducational in
1969.[121] Connecticut College also adopted coeducation during the late 1960s.
Wells College, previously
with a student body of women only, became co-educational in 2005. Douglass College, part of Rutgers
University, was the last publicly funded women's only college until 2007 when it became coed.

Criticism
Some black and/or working class and poor women felt alienated by the main planks of the second-wave
feminist movement, which largely advocated women's right to work outside the home and expansion of
reproductive rights. Women of color and poor white women in the U.S. had been working outside of the
home in blue-collar and service jobs for generations. Additionally, Angela Davis wrote that while Afro-
American women and white women were subjected to multiple unwilled pregnancies and had to
clandestinely abort, Afro-American women were also suffering from compulsory sterilization programs that
were not widely included in dialogue about reproductive justice.

Beginning in the late 20th century, numerous feminist scholars such as Audre Lorde[122] and Winona
LaDuke[123] critiqued the second wave in the United States as reducing feminist activity into a
homogenized and whitewashed chronology of feminist history that ignores the voices and contributions of
many women of color, working-class women, and LGBT women.[124][125]

The second-wave feminist movement in the United States has been criticized for failing to acknowledge the
struggles of women of color, and their voices were often silenced or ignored by white feminists.[126][124] It
has been suggested that the dominant historical narratives of the feminist movement focuses on white, East
Coast, and predominantly middle-class women and women's consciousness-raising groups, excluding the
experiences and contributions of lesbians, women of color, and working-class and lower-class women.[44]
Chela Sandoval called the dominant narratives of the women's liberation movement "hegemonic feminism"
because it essentializes the feminist historiography to an exclusive population of women, which assumes
that all women experience the same oppressions as the white, East Coast, and predominantly middle-class
women.[127] This restricting view purportedly ignored the oppressions women face determined by their
race, class, and sexuality, and gave rise to women-of-color feminisms that separated from the women's
liberation movement, such as Black feminism, Africana womanism, and the Hijas de Cuauhtémoc that
emerged at California State University, Long Beach, which was founded by Anna Nieto-Gómez, due to the
Chicano Movement's sexism.[128][129][130] Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term "intersectionality" in 1989
in response to the white, middle-class views that dominated second-wave feminism. Intersectionality
describes the way systems of oppression (i.e. sexism, racism) have multiplicative, not additive, effects, on
those who are multiply marginalized. It has become a core tenet of third-wave feminism.[131]

Many feminist scholars see the generational division of the second wave as problematic.[132] Second
wavers are typically essentialized as the Baby Boomer generation, when in actuality many feminist leaders
of the second wave were born before World War II ended. This generational essentialism homogenizes the
group that belongs to the wave and asserts that every person part of a certain demographic generation
shared the same ideologies, because ideological differences were considered to be generational
differences.[133]

Feminist scholars, particularly those from the late 20th and early 21st centuries to the present day, have
revisited diverse writings,[44] oral histories, artwork, and artifacts of women of color, working-class
women, and lesbians during the early 1960s to the early 1980s to decenter what they view as the dominant
historical narratives of the second wave of the women's liberation movement, allowing the scope of the
historical understanding of feminist consciousness to expand and transform. By recovering histories that
they believe have been erased and overlooked, these scholars purport to establish what Maylei Blackwell
termed "retrofitted memory".[134] Blackwell describes this as a form of "countermemory" that creates a
transformative and fluid "alternative archive" and space for women's feminist consciousness within
"hegemonic narratives".[134] For Blackwell, looking within the gaps and crevices of the second wave
allows fragments of historical knowledge and memory to be discovered, and new historical feminist
subjects as well as new perspectives about the past to emerge, forcing existing dominant histories that claim
to represent a universal experience to be decentered and refocused.[135]

See also
American philosophy
Black Feminism
Civil rights movements
Counterculture of the 1960s
Feminism in 1950s Britain
Feminist movements and ideologies
First-wave feminism
Goddess movement
History of feminism
List of feminists
List of women's rights activists
Pro-life feminism
Radical Feminism
Sexual revolution
Third-wave feminism
Timeline of reproductive rights legislation
Timeline of second-wave feminism
Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting)
Timeline of women's suffrage
Feminism and racism

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Boxer, Marilyn J. and Jean H. Quataert, eds. Connecting Spheres: European Women in a
Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present (2000)
Cott, Nancy. No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States (2004)
Freedman, Estelle B. No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
(2003)
Harnois, Catherine (2008). "Re-presenting feminisms: Past, present, and future" (http://muse.
jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/summary/v020/20.1.harnois.html). NWSA Journal. Johns
Hopkins University Press. 20 (1): 120–145. JSTOR 40071255 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/4
0071255).
MacLean, Nancy. The American Women's Movement, 1945–2000: A Brief History with
Documents (2008)
Offen, Karen; Pierson, Ruth Roach; and Rendall, Jane, eds. Writing Women's History:
International Perspectives (1991)
 Prentice, Alison and Trofimenkoff, Susan Mann, eds. The Neglected Majority: Essays in
Canadian Women's History (2 vol 1985)
Ramusack, Barbara N., and Sharon Sievers, eds. Women in Asia: Restoring Women to
History (1999)
Rosen, Ruth. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed
America (2nd ed. 2006)
Roth, Benita. Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements
in America's Second Wave. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press (2004)
Stansell, Christine. The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present (2010)
Thébaud, Françoise (Spring 2007). "Writing women's and gender history in France: A
national narrative?". Journal of Women's History. 19 (1): 167–172.
doi:10.1353/jowh.2007.0026 (https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fjowh.2007.0026).
S2CID 145711786 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145711786).
Zophy, Angela Howard, ed. Handbook of American Women's History (2nd ed. 2000)

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