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“We’re a movement now,” proclaimed feminist Kate Millett to tens of thousands of women who marched on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on August 26, 1970—the largest U.S. women’s march up to that point—to demand full gender equality. It was the 50th anniversary of the passage of woman suffrage, and the Women’s Strike for Equality March, led by the National Organization for Women (NOW), was calling for new rights: free childcare, equal opportunities in education, and employment, and access to abortion. The women’s movement had long roots, but by 1970, it had arrived.
Women march in the streets, some with signs, as part of the Women’s Strike for Equality March
Women Strike for Equality Day. Eugene Gordon, August 26, 1970. Courtesy New-York Historical Society
The strike was called for by Betty Friedan, the Queens-based author of The Feminine Mystique and the first president of NOW. Friedan urged work stoppages for “everyone who is doing a job for which a man would be paid more,” as well as women whose labor at home was unpaid. Among the women who spoke alongside Millett and Friedan was Eleanor Holmes Norton, who had just sued Newsweek for gender discrimination on behalf of 46 women employees, and Congresswoman Bella Abzug, also known as “Battling Bella.” Alice Paul, the suffragist who first urged the adoption of an Equal Rights Amendment for women in 1923, also attended. hope this helps?