An amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that forbids discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin or ethnicity.
Title VII Quotes in The Feminine Mystique
The The Feminine Mystique quotes below are all either spoken by Title VII or refer to Title VII. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“What we need is a political movement, a social movement like that of the blacks.”
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Title VII Term Timeline in The Feminine Mystique
The timeline below shows where the term Title VII appears in The Feminine Mystique. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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...movement like the Civil Rights Movement for black people. Friedan went to Washington, DC after Title VII , which banned sex discrimination in employment, had been passed. The man in charge of...
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...a young female lawyer who worked for the agency that would do nothing to enforce Title VII led to the idea to start the National Organization for Women. Friedan co-founded the group...
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