How did the womens movement transform American society in the 1960s and 1970s?
The Pill began to be widely used and woman began to gain legal protections to manage their own bodies, such as Roe vs. Wade, unwed women began to keep their babies and raise them as single parents rather than get married, premarital-sex became more socially acceptable, co-habitation vs. marriage certificate relationships increased, marital rape was criminalized, rape laws and justice system approaches to rape refocused from blaming the victim for “questionable” morals to more legally protecting women from assault just like men had protections from assault, domestic violence laws rose, Title IX stopped academic lock-out of women, the voting age was lowered mostly due to women’s movement organizations human rights legal activities, sex discrimination in high school sports was successfully challenged, pregnant women were no longer banned from school, etc.