![]() ![]() Wade ruling in 1973, is still under attack but remains the law. The right to have an abortion, legalized in the US Supreme Court’s Roe v. Employers now recognize the reality of sexual harassment, which did not even have a name until the 1970s. ![]() Giving girls an equal opportunity to play competitive sports is now taken for granted. More men in couples share housework and child rearing than was the case two or three decades ago. Today women comprise about half of all medical students and have a stronger foothold in other formerly all-male professions and occupations. In 1960, only about six percent of medical students were women. Women are now running corporations, newspapers and TV stations, universities and major labor unions. The Obama administration just lifted the ban on women in combat. Corporations, law firms, the media, universities, advertising, the military, sports and other core institutions can no longer exercise blatant sex discrimination without facing scrutiny and the risk of protest and lawsuits. Today, most Americans, including men, believe that women should earn the same pay as men if they do the same job. ![]() Most Americans now accept as normal the once-radical ideas that Friedan and others espoused. ![]()
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