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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Making women's rights matter: Diverse activists, California's Commission on the Status of Women, and the legislative and social impact of a movement, 1962--1976 Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the modern American women's movement at the state level revealing how coalitions of diverse activists played a significant role in its origins and its transforming legislative and social impact. Since the state level is where most laws maintaining gender bias existed, reflecting the still-influential system of coverture, this aspect of the movement's history deserves more attention. Despite their conflicts, post-World War II activists from different economic, racial, and political backgrounds built alliances by the early 1960s, targeting discriminatory state legal codes. In their push for new laws and policies, coalitions of women's rights advocates, from professional organizations, labor unions, civil rights groups, and other women's associations, pressed elected officials to create state commissions on the status of women; these commissions were gained in all fifty states between 1962 and 1967, and in California by 1965. Given impetus by the President's Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) established in 1961, but pursuing their own longstanding agendas for change, networks of activists used state commissions to promote ever-expanding goals of gender equity. Previous studies of the women's movement have focused on the PCSW, the National Organization for Women, founded in 1966, and women's liberation groups that emerged later. However, the earlier push for state commissions, as well as their legislative influence and social impact, remain underevaluated components of the women's movement's success. |
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