Nancy Pelosi, First Female Speaker of the House

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  Flight Attendants

  Airlines had strict rules as to what the 'ideal' flight attendants should look like.

  3:05
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  The Feminine Mystique

  Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique in 1963, an expose on the happy homemaker myth.

  3:07
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  Boston Marathon

  In 1967 Kathrine Switzer ran in the Boston Marathon.

  3:51
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  Ms. Magazine

  Gloria Steinem founded Ms. Magazine in 1972

  3:28
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  Battle of the Sexes

  Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in the 1973 Battle of the Sexes match.

  3:31
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  ERA

  The Equal Rights Amendment passed both houses of congress in 1972

  2:05
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  Women in the Workplace

  The 1980s brought about new ideas of what women were capable of.

  5:41
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  Abby Pogrebin

  By the mid 1990's women who had grown up with the movement were coming of age

  3:04
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  Feminism Today

  While huge strides have been made the fight for equal rights is not over

  8:39
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  Southern Bell

  NOW tackled job discrimination at Southern Bell

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