Ghandi and Women’s Rights
•Indira Ghandi was a child of Nehru
•Elected as leader of the Indian Congress Party in 1955
•Became India’s P.M. in 1965
•Declared martial law in 1975 amidst an election scandal
•Lost in the polls in 1977
•Returned in 1980 with a landslide victory
•Assassinated in 1984 by one of her own bodyguards
•Pushed for the end of poverty and for women’s rights in India
Also popular over the exploding of India’s first nuclear weapon and their successful war over Pakistan in 1971
The Women’s Rights Movement
•The modern women’s rights movement began with Betty Frieden’s “The Feminine Mystique” a book about women being dissatisfied with their role
•1966 She founds the National Organization for Women (NOW)
•They fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibited discrimination by gender
•It was defeated
•1973 the Supreme Court struck down laws, which prohibited abortion
•1970 Gloria Steinem took over NOW
The group split over the abortion issue in the 1980s
•Elected as leader of the Indian Congress Party in 1955
•Became India’s P.M. in 1965
•Declared martial law in 1975 amidst an election scandal
•Lost in the polls in 1977
•Returned in 1980 with a landslide victory
•Assassinated in 1984 by one of her own bodyguards
•Pushed for the end of poverty and for women’s rights in India
Also popular over the exploding of India’s first nuclear weapon and their successful war over Pakistan in 1971
The Women’s Rights Movement
•The modern women’s rights movement began with Betty Frieden’s “The Feminine Mystique” a book about women being dissatisfied with their role
•1966 She founds the National Organization for Women (NOW)
•They fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibited discrimination by gender
•It was defeated
•1973 the Supreme Court struck down laws, which prohibited abortion
•1970 Gloria Steinem took over NOW
The group split over the abortion issue in the 1980s
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