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- Served in Congress for a decade after losing the Democratic nomination for President.
- Supported equal rights for minorities and women.
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- Part of the feminist group that established NOW.
- Worked to end seperate classified employment ads for men and women.
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| National Organization for Women (NOW) |
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- Helped to end classified employment ads for just men.
- Banks, realtors and department stores were forced to grant loans, mortgages, taxes and credit to female applicants.
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- The treatment of people differently based solely on race.
- Sexism was outlawed in the workplace by 1971.
- By the mid 1970's women became more prominant in the business and political world.
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- Dismissed the women's right movement
- She opposed the ErA organization because she believed that it would end the women's traditional domestic roles.
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- The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
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- Former Justice in the Supreme Court (2nd woman ever to serve).
- Successfully argued against a number of laws that treated men and women differently, even when the laws gave women favorable treatment.
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- Ran alongside Walter Mandale for President
- Criticized Reagan by saying that he only was helping the wealthy.
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