Women’s Strike for Equality

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Women’s Strike for Equality

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Betty Friedan
…efforts, helping to organize the Women’s Strike for Equality—held on August 26, 1970, the 50th anniversary of woman suffrage—and leading in the campaign for ratification of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. A founding member of the National Women’s Political Caucus (1971), she said it was organized…
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…efforts, helping to organize the Women’s Strike for Equality—held on August 26, 1970, the 50th anniversary of woman suffrage—and leading in the campaign for ratification of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. A founding member of the National Women’s Political Caucus (1971), she said it was organized…
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