Title: Monthly Review | What Happened to the Women’s Movement?
Headings: What Happened to the Women’s Movement?
What Happened to the Women’s Movement?
Why the Silence?
From a Movement to an Idea
Why the Decline of the Women’s Movement?
Feminism Has Absorbed the Perspective of the Middle Class
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Content: It opened to women professions and blue-collar jobs that previously had been reserved for men. It transformed the portrayal of women by the media. It introduced the demand for women’s equality into politics, organized religion, sports, and innumerable other arenas and institutions, and as a result the gender balance of participation and leadership began to change. By framing inequality and oppression in family and personal relations as a political question, the women’s movement opened up public discussion of issues previously seen as private, and therefore beyond public scrutiny. The women’s movement changed the way we talk, and the way we think. As a result, arguably most young women now believe that their options are or at least should be as open as men’s. Despite the dramatic accomplishments of the women’s movement, and the acceptance of women’s equality as a goal in most sectors of U.S. society, gender equality has not yet been achieved. Many more women work outside the home but most continue to be concentrated in low-paying jobs; women earn, on the average, considerably less than men; women are much more likely than men to be poor.