CLEP US History II

Answer: E - The second wave of the women’s rights movement in the United States was also known as the women’s liberation movement, or “women’s lib.” It began in the 1960s and lasted until the 1980s. The new generation of feminists focused their activism on achieving the recognition of women’s social and institutional equality to men, particularly in the workforce; reproductive health rights; and the cultural right to be free of societal standards that condemned women for not marrying or for choosing to work outside the home. The second wave ultimately ended because the movement became ideologically fractured.