Women’s Rights in the 1980s

CALS 273, Fall 2020

Presenter: Jocelyn Chacon

Co-Presenter(s):
Jocelyn Chacon, Cindy Cerda, & Alitcel Camacho

Presenter Status: Undergraduate student

Academic Year: 20-21

Semester: Fall

Faculty Mentor: Malinalli Lopez

Department: Chicano and Latino Studies

Funding Source/Sponsor: SYRCE Symposium

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Abstract:
The 1980’s a decade opened with complete change yet backlash as a new era for women began. During this period, the Women's Movement was entering a new stage. Development In education, healthcare, and the workforce was underway. Marked by both backlash and advancement. Government regulations, abortion, and reproductive rights, as well as social service programs, began to be more focused on during this period.  Women had to continue fighting for the progress they had made in the 1960s and 1970s. Women of all races and ethnicity have been discriminated against for the longest time in the United States. The woman began to persistently in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. In the paper, we will be focusing on the advancements made in the development of Women's Rights in the 1980s and its effects on education, healthcare, and the workforce.