Document Type
Article
Comments
Presented on April 22, 2009 as part of the Dorothea S. Clarke program in Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School.
Abstract
The second wave of the women’s movement, which started in the early 1960s, revolutionized women’s legal rights in the U.S. and reverberated in the rest of the world. Ms. Fuentes, a founder of NOW (National Organization for Women) and the first woman attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), discusses the beginning of this movement, her role in it, the changes that have occurred since then, and the problems that remain in the US and throughout the world today.
Date of Authorship for this Version
April 2009
Keywords
Women's rights, Women's movement
Recommended Citation
Fuentes, Sonia Pressman, "The Beginning of the Second Wave of the Women's Movement and Where We Are Today: a Personal Account" (2009). Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers. 54.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clsops_papers/54