Betty Friedan's 1963 best seller described college-educated suburban housewives whose lives were confined to home and children, and called their unhappiness 'the problem that has no name.' Which book was it?

A 1966 statement of purpose committed a new group 'to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now... in truly equal partnership with men.' Which organization was founded on it?

President Kennedy created it by executive order in 1961, Eleanor Roosevelt chaired it, and in 1963 it reported on women's treatment in employment, education and the law under the title American Women. What was it?

When the Equal Pay Act was signed in 1963, which workers did it leave out?

The President's Commission on the Status of Women, in its 1963 report, called for passing the Equal Rights Amendment.

In February 1964 Representative Howard W. Smith of Virginia moved on the House floor to add the word 'sex' to the employment section of the civil rights bill, and it stayed in the final law. Which title of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was that?

Frustrated by legislative resistance to the Equal Rights Amendment, Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm and Betty Friedan called a 1971 conference in Washington to get more women elected to office. What did they found?

Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes launched a national feminist magazine whose first standalone issue appeared in July 1972 and sold out quickly. What was it called?

In 1972 Phyllis Schlafly organized a national campaign against ratifying the amendment Congress had just sent to the states. What was her group called?

Into the late 1960s American newspapers ran job advertisements in separate 'Help Wanted - Male' and 'Help Wanted - Female' columns. In 1968 the EEOC ruled the practice unlawful. Which statute did the EEOC enforce in doing so?

A state university that receives federal funds offers athletic scholarships to men only and tells women's teams to raise their own money. Which federal provision made that unlawful?

Two workers at the same plant do the same job on the same shift, and the man is paid the higher wage. Which federal law made that pay difference illegal?

An Idaho law told probate courts to prefer a man over a woman when appointing the administrator of an estate. In 1971 a unanimous Supreme Court struck it down under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Which case was it?

Banks could refuse a married woman a credit card or a loan in her own name, or demand her husband's signature. Which federal law, passed in 1974, banned credit discrimination on the basis of sex and marital status?

Campaigners argued that a statute protecting women could be repealed by any later Congress or state legislature, so equality had to be written into the Constitution itself. Which measure did they push for on that reasoning?

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 bars sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal money. What gives the law its force?

'[...] under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.' Which amendment does this text come from?

Section 2 of the Equal Rights Amendment was an enforcement clause modeled on those in the Reconstruction amendments. What would that section have done?

Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment on March 22, 1972. By the extended deadline of June 30, 1982, 35 state legislatures had ratified it. Why did it fail?

Congress first set a seven-year limit for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, then voted in 1978 to give the states more time. To when was the ratification deadline extended?

One side in the ratification fight argued that the amendment would sweep away protective labor laws for women, unsettle alimony and custody rules, and make young women subject to the military draft. Whose argument was that?

Supporters of the ERA pointed out that women's legal equality rested on separate statutes and on case-by-case Fourteenth Amendment rulings. What did they say a constitutional amendment would add?

Several state legislatures that had voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment later voted to rescind their ratifications.

The Equal Rights Amendment did not begin in 1972; Congress had been considering a version of it for decades before then. In which decade was an equal rights amendment first introduced in Congress?

The national federation that surveys high school athletics counted 294,015 girls playing in 1971-72 and 2,083,040 in 1977-78. Which federal measure is credited with that change?

In 1974 Connecticut voters elected Ella Grasso governor. Why was that election a first in national politics?

In 1968 she became the first Black woman elected to the House of Representatives, and in 1972 she ran for the Democratic nomination for president. Who was she?

In November 1977 delegates from every state met in Houston at the federally funded National Women's Conference, presided over by Bella Abzug. What did the conference produce?

Which goal of the women's movement was NOT achieved by federal action between 1963 and 1974?

The ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment ran out on June 30, 1982. What was the amendment's status at that point?