women's liberation

Despite their dark origins of being tested in low-income Puerto Rican women, birth control pills have been credited as being key players in the women’s liberation movement because they helped women take their fertility into their own hands.

Introduced to the public in 1974, the design became synonymous with women’s liberation and launched a young Von Furstenberg’s career.

There are metrics we can use to gauge women's liberation, from the closing of the gender pay gap to increased levels of female education to later marriage and motherhood ages.

The urgency women now feel about regaining their lost freedom echoes the grassroots uprising of the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

With a woman seeking the presidency of the United States, women occupying gubernatorial and mayoral seats across the country, from New York to Arizona, and from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, and with women rising in all of the professions, we are living in the world that Donahue predicted, and we are accruing the benefits of the women’s liberation movement.