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=__﻿Feminist Movement__= =__Betty Friedan__=
 * 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.
 * In 1972, ** Gloria Steinem ** founded a feminist magazine of that name.
 * 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.
 * By 1980, women constituted a majority of American undergraduates
 * She helped launch the revival of the feminist movement in the 1960s, first with her extraordinary book //__Feminine Mystique of 1963__// and then with her pivotal role in founding the National Organization for Women.
 * She exposed that lie beautifully, and helped millions of American women realize "Wait, I'm not the only one who feels this way."
 * Betty saw her movement as calling for a reconfiguring of heterosexual relationships along more egalitarian lines.
 * She wanted the movement to de-emphasize relationship issues, for fear that they were inflaming the right.