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Girls and Women: Women, Law, and Politics (1971)

1971 · Short film · 28 min · dir. Malcolm Campbell

Synopsis

A panel including Representative Martha Griffiths of Michigan examines women's issues current in the early 1970s: equal pay and opportunity for women, inequities in the Social Security system, and part-time employment for women. It also discusses the effect on women's freedom and rights of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill that added the words "sex" and "race" to the list of items unlawful for discrimination. From the Girls and women series. Dated, but of historical and comparative interest. Episode…

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Director
Malcolm Campbell
Running time
28 minutes

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