Discrimination Against

Women

Equal Pay Act of 1963

President Kennedy signed into law the Equal
Pay Act of 1963 prohibiting "discrimination on
account of sex in the payment of wages."

education
Laws in the 19th century required states to
provide equal educational opportunity for both
boys and girls. Most public schools were
coeducational, yet many teachers subtly but
firmly suggested to girls that a womans place
was mainly in the home rather than in
secondary schools, colleges, or professions
unless the intended career was schoolteaching.

Women's suffrages