The hidden history of affirmative action : working women's struggles in the 1970s and the gender of class
1999
25
1
42-78
equal rights ; gender ; history ; gender discrimination ; sexual division of labour ; women ; womens rights
Gender equality & Women
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3216670
English
"Working women, especially those who had to support families, started to struggle against gender discrimination in the labor market in the 1960s after the passage of the Civil Rights Act banning employment discrimination on the basis of race and gender. Women were traditionally relegated to low-paying clerical jobs. In the 1970s, a women's labor group filed and won a class action suit on gender discrimination against the newspaper 'New York Times.' Women's movements also broke down male monopoly of jobs in the construction and coal mining industries, and in firefighting departments. ..."
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