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 * Before the 1960s, traditional American society encouraged young women to find happiness and fulfillment through marriage and homemaking.
 * Television shows like "The Donna Reed Show" presented an image of domestic bliss in a pleasant suburban setting.
 * In 1963, Betty Friedan published a book called The Feminine Mystique that identified "the problem that has no name
 * In 1966, Friedan, and others formed an activist group called the National Organization for Women.
 * When Congress debated that landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination in employment on account of race, conservative Congressmen added gender to the bill, thinking that the inclusion of women would kill the act.
 * . In 1968, radical women demonstrated outside the Miss America Pageant outside Atlantic City by crowning a live sheep.
 * ** "Freedom trash cans" ** were built where women could throw all symbols of female oppression including false eyelashes, hair curlers, bras, girdles, and high-heeled shoes
 * The word "sexism" entered the American vocabulary, as women became categorized as a target group for discrimination.
 * In 1960, women comprised less than 40 percent of the nation's undergraduate classes, and far fewer women were candidates for advanced degrees
 * Despite voting for four decades, there were only 19 women serving in the Congress in 1961.
 * For every dollar that was earned by an American male, each working American female earned 59¢.
 * As more and more women chose careers over housework, marriages were delayed to a later age and the birthrate plummeted.