The 1960's were a time that was constantly changing for women. More women were entering the paid workforce but they were suffering from lower pay than men, sexual harrassment, and not being promoted due to gender. All of this was occuring in the work place. Women were paid 60 percent of what men made yet the equal pay legislation was passed in 1963.
Before this women were expected to be married by her twenties, have a family, and devote her life to working around the house. A wife back in before the changing times would spend an average 55 hours at home taking care of the children, doing the laundry, cooking, and taking care of their husbands when they came home. Now women could go to work like men so they didn't get married as fast and didn't have children as fast.
The main goals of the feminists of the 1960's were ending sexual harrassment, ending domestic violence, equal pay for equal work, sharing responsibilities around the house, and trying to break the boundary that prevented women from getting manigerial postitions. The feminists were a group of people that stood for these things because they worked at the same time as the baby boom. They demanded maternity leave and child care because of their large families.
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