History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2118 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What the Movements Won
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The idea
In the nineteen seventies, the anchor records, feminists opened shelters for battered women and won protection against employment discrimination for pregnant women.
In practice
Rape laws reformed, ending rules that a woman's report of rape needed a witness to back it.
Where people slip
Domestic violence was criminalised, the anchor adds, and Digital History records the Supreme Court striking down all-male juries in nineteen seventy-five.
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