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[-] mathemachristian 3 points 1 week ago

The founding fathers of liberalism:

  • only propertied men can vote
  • women belong to the kitchen
  • how much do your slaves cost?
[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

The post is almost definitely about social liberalism rather than classical liberalism, which isn't even called liberalism in the US anymore.

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[-] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

My grandma just went to the town hall to get her driver's license without needing to take an exma somewhere in the fifties, so not really something they weren't allowed to do.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Apparently laws were removed as recently as 1976 in some states.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Buy a credit card?

Anyway, a bunch of these weren’t laws or rules, but certainly actively discouraged by male society or simply made legally difficult.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

1920 The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified. It declares: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

1922 Florence Ellinwood Allen of Ohio becomes the first woman elected to a state supreme court.

1923 National Woman’s Party proposes Constitutional amendment: “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and in every place subject to its jurisdiction. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”

1924 Radice v. New York, a New York state case, upholds a law that forbade waitresses from working the night shift but made an exception for entertainers and ladies’ room attendants.

1925 American Indian suffrage granted by act of Congress.

1928 Genevieve Rose Cline of Ohio becomes the first woman to be a federal judge.

1932 The National Recovery Act forbids more than one family member from holding a government job, resulting in many women losing their jobs.

1933 Frances Perkins becomes the first female Cabinet member, selected by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be Secretary of Labor.

1936 United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries, 13 F. Supp.334 (E.D.N.Y 1936) aff’d 86 F 2d 737 (2nd Cir. 1936), won judicial approval of medicinal use of birth control.

1937 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Washington state’s minimum wage laws for women.

1938 The Fair Labor Standards Act establishes minimum wage without regard to sex.

1946 The United Nations establishes the Commission on the Status of Women to safeguard women’s rights and oversee their global status.

1947 Fay v. New York, 332 U.S. 261 (1947), the U.S. Supreme Court says women are equally qualified with men to serve on juries but are granted an exemption and may serve or not as women choose.

1949 Women’s Paycheck Act (California)

1961 In Hoyt v. Florida, 368 U.S. 57 (1961): The U.S. Supreme Court upholds rules adopted by the state of Florida that made it far less likely for women than men to be called for jury service on the grounds that a “woman is still regarded as the center of home and family life.”

1963 The Equal Pay Act is passed by Congress, promising equitable wages for the same work, regardless of the race, color, religion, national origin or sex of the worker.

1964 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act passes including a prohibition against employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex.

1965 Weeks v. Southern Bell, 408 F. 2d. 228 (5th Cir. 1969), marks a major triumph in the fight against restrictive labor laws and company regulations on the hours and conditions of women’s work, opening many previously male-only jobs to women.

1965 In Griswold v Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, the Supreme Court overturns one of the last state laws prohibiting the prescription or use of contraceptives by married couples.

1968 Executive Order 11246 prohibits sex discrimination by government contractors and requires affirmative action plans for hiring women.

1969 In Bowe v. Colgate-Palmolive Company, 416 F. 2d 711 (7th Cir.1969), the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rules that women meeting the physical requirements can work in many jobs that had been for men only.

1969 California adopts the nation’s first “no fault” divorce law, allowing divorce by mutual consent.

1971 Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corporation, 400 U.S. 542: The U.S. Supreme Court outlaws the practice of private employers refusing to hire women with pre-school children.

1971 Reed v. Reed, 404 U.S. 71:  The U.S. Supreme Court holds unconstitutional a state law (Idaho) establishing automatic preference for males as administrators of wills. This is the first time the court strikes down a law treating men and women differently. The Court finally declares women as “persons,” but uses a “reasonableness” test rather than making sex a “suspect classification,” analogous to race, under the Fourteenth Amendment.

1972 Title IX (Public Law 92-318) of the Education Amendments prohibits sex discrimination in all aspects of education programs that receive federal support.

1972: In Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438, the Supreme Court rules that the right to privacy encompasses an unmarried person’s right to use contraceptives.

1973 Pittsburgh Press v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations, 413 U.S. 376 (1973): The U.S. Supreme Court bans sex-segregated “help wanted” advertising as a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended.

1973 Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 and Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179:  The U.S. Supreme Court declares that the Constitution protects women’s right to terminate an early pregnancy, thus making abortion legal in the U.S.

1974 Housing discrimination on the basis of sex and credit discrimination against women are outlawed by Congress.

1974 Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur, 414 U.S. 632 (1974), determines it is illegal to force pregnant women to take maternity leave on the assumption they are incapable of working in their physical condition.

1974 The Women’s Educational Equity Act, drafted by Arlene Horowitz and introduced by Representative Patsy Mink (D-HI), funds the development of nonsexist teaching materials and model programs that encourage full educational opportunities for girls and women.

1974 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Justice and Labor Departments, and AT&T sign a consent decree banning AT&T’s discriminatory practices against women and minorities.

1975 Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522 (1975), denies states the right to exclude women from juries.

1976 General Elec. Co v. Gilbert, 429 U. S. 125 (1976), the Supreme Court upholds women’s right to unemployment benefits during the last three months of pregnancy.

1976 Craig v. Boren, 429 U.S. 190: The U.S. Supreme Court declares unconstitutional a state law permitting 18 to 20-year-old females to drink beer while denying the rights to men of the same age. The Court establishes new set of standards for reviewing laws that treat men and women differently—an “intermediate” test stricter than the “reasonableness” test for constitutionality in sex discrimination cases.

1978 The Pregnancy Discrimination Act bans employment discrimination against pregnant women.

1981 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that excluding women from the draft is constitutional.

1981 Kirchberg v. Feenstra, 450 U.S. 455, 459-60, overturns state laws designating a husband “head and master” with unilateral control of property owned jointly with his wife.

1981 Sandra Day O’Connor is appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve as the first woman on the Supreme Court.

1982 Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan, 458 U.S. 718 (1982), establishes that public schools may not discriminate on the basis of sex without exceedingly persuasive justification, under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

1984 In Roberts v. U.S. Jaycees, 468 U.S. 609 (1984), sex discrimination in membership policies of organizations, such as the Jaycees, is forbidden by the Supreme Court, opening many previously all-male organizations (Jaycees, Kiwanis, Rotary, Lions) to women.

1984 The state of Mississippi belatedly ratifies the 19th Amendment, granting women the vote.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ok, this is unnecessary and unfair to copy pasta this facts dump WoT. It adds nothing. Stick to the subject at hand, read what was written, keep it concise, and don’t read what I didn’t say. Y’all are hiveminding an attack on someone who is on your side.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Just saying that

Anyway, a bunch of these weren’t laws or rules

Isn't right.

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[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Man, I have a smoking hot friend and she wants to stay home, make babies and cook all day. Don't want to vote, work, or be independent in anything really. Apparently I'm the weird one who thinks women should have an equal say in society (everyone, really). Kinda thought women like that don't exist, but apparently they're out there and there's more and more of them. They believe in primitive human society where muscle mass determines success in life and women exist to make babies. Oh yeah, and gay people shouldn't have the same rights.. for some reason... I think its cause they turn kids gay?

I'll tell you, it's always the hot ones that are crazy.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The lie in that is implying that MAGA has any relation to liberalism.

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Why you say that? Fascism will consume your ideology. We should probably tell them gently to stop that

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fascism will consume your ideology.

Hum... Sorry, that's not how ideologies work.

If you are from the US, you have a fascism problem. You should push vocally for them to be severely punished, to the point they can't return to power, and prepare for the the alternative, that is less civil than that.

None of this has any impact on liberalism, or in my ideology.

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