70s

Question 1

70s

Name 7 things a woman couldn’t do before 1971

Answer 1

1. Get a credit card in her own name
2. Be guaranteed they would not get fired for getting pregnant
3. Fight on the front lines
4. Majority of Ivy League universities would not accept women
5. Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment
6. Get health insurance for the same price of a man
7. Take the birth control pill

Question 2

70s

When did congress pass the ERA?
Why didn’t it get rattified?
When was it eventually rattified?

Answer 2

1972
Because 38 states needed to ratify it.
2020

Question 3

70s

When + What was Roe vs Wade?

Answer 3

1973. Roe V Wade is the court case that set a new precedent and legalised abortion in the first trimester of a woman’s pregnancy. It overturned the laws of individual states.