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December 5, 2016
Equal Pay Act of 1963
The sixties was dominated by historical events that shaped present-day society. These events included the Civil Rights movement, the assassination of John F. Kennedy which resulted in the presidency to be assigned to Lyndon B. Johnson, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis and lastly the Moon landing. The feminine mystique 16th street baptist church, four little black girls were at church when a bomb exploded killing them as a result.
The equal pay act prohibited discrimination between the sexes by employers and set a minimum wage in which employees should paid in.
The earliest symbolic act of feminism in the U.S dates back to 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York. Susan