2016 marks the 50th Anniversary of NOW's first national conference in Washington, DC. The promise of a "fully equal partnership of the sexes."

Spoonwood · 2016-02-06T04:11:54+00:00

We, men and women who hereby constitute ourselves as the National Organization for Women, believe that the time has come for a new movement toward true equality for all women in America, and toward a fully equal partnership of the sexes, as part of the world-wide revolution of human rights now taking place within and beyond our national borders.

Um... more boys than girls got cut at that time in the United States. F. G. M. wasn't illegal, and it did happen, but it came as rarer, though not necessarily less nor more severe depending on the type of F. G. M., than M. G. M. Abortion was generally illegal from what I understand, but I believe safe havens did exist, while men had to pay child support. Men couldn't get raped according to the definition of rape in several states and the F. B. I. definition of rape. Also, the United States had a live draft at the time. Or in other words men did get drafted into the military.

The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all the privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men.

The language comes as loaded against women instead of saying something like "to put the sexes into an equal partnership".

We believe that women can achieve such equality only by accepting to the full the challenges and responsibilities they share with all other people in our society, as part of the decision-making mainstream of American political, economic and social life.

But, 1966 was the first year, of now decades of years, in which women outnumbered men in terms of who voted in federal elections. So, women were doing what Friedan here suggested they do to a significant extent. How was this emphasis thus needed as if women weren't doing such?

We organize to initiate or support action, nationally, or in any part of this nation, by individuals or organizations, to break through the silken curtain of prejudice and discrimination against women in government, industry, the professions, the churches, the political parties, the judiciary, the labor unions, in education [emphasis added], science, medicine, law, religion and every other field of importance in American society.

I'm pretty sure that more female primary school teachers than male primary school teachers existed in the 60s, though I really don't have if there existed any discrimination against either sex then.

With a life span lengthened to nearly 75 years...

In 1960 the life expectancy of men we 67 for white men and 61 for black men: http://elderweb.com/book/appendix/1900-2000-changes-life-expectancy-united-states Doesn't that suggest discrimination against men in medicine?

Despite all the talk about the status of American women...

Um... the life expectancy tables show a greater increase for women from 50 to 60 and from 60 to 70 than for men over either of those time periods. And women lived longer also.

... child-care centers ...

Sounds like a funding source for N. O. W.

Moreover, we consider the decline in the proportion [emphasis added] of women receiving higher and professional education to be evidence of discrimination.

And not evidence of the effectiveness of the G. I. Bill. Why bother looking at that?

WE REJECT the current assumptions that a man must carry the sole burden of supporting himself, his wife, and family, and that a woman is automatically entitled to lifelong support by a man upon her marriage, or that marriage, home and family are primarily woman’s world and responsibility — hers, to dominate — his to support. We believe that a true partnership between the sexes demands a different concept of marriage, an equitable sharing of the responsibilities of home and children and of the economic burdens of their support. We believe that proper recognition should be given to the economic and social value of homemaking and child-care. To these ends, we will seek to open a reexamination of laws and mores governing marriage and divorce, for we believe that the current state of `half-equity” between the sexes discriminates against both men and women, and is the cause of much unnecessary hostility between the sexes.

First she says that she doesn't want a man to carry the burden of financially supporting the family, but then demands that proper recognition get given to homemaking and child care. Wasn't the man having all of the financial responsibility for supporting the family serious recognition of the economic and social value of homemaking and child care? I mean... weren't there many men who gave their wives money for doing homemaking and child care? And wasn't it Bretty Friedan, and not Carl Friedan, who told all those housewives that they should get off their ass and work? (haven't read her work much... I could be wrong about her work essentially having that message).

On balance I don't know if there exists more sophistry than substance or more substance than sophistry in the above.

2016-02-06T18:29:15+00:00

The women's movement has boiled down to privilege and welfare for them at the expense of men and children.

it boils down to bitching, lots and lots bitching. bitching about the phantom wage gap, bitching about to get men to pay for their contraception, bitching to get more alimony, bitching to keep men out of university.

Title	2016 marks the 50th Anniversary of NOW's first national conference in Washington, DC. The promise of a "fully equal partnership of the sexes."
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Date	February 5, 2016 9:08 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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