women’s liberation movement

Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique

📅 19 February 1963

The book questioned the narrow postwar ideal of women’s domestic fulfillment and helped energize second-wave feminism. Black, working-class and lesbian feminists later challenged its limited account...

First National Women’s Liberation Conference opens at Ruskin College

📅 27 February 1970

Women activists met to set a shared agenda for liberation, including equal pay, education and childcare. The conference helped build a decentralized movement while debate continued over race,...