... in sixties America. This growing consciousness among females was coupled with the realisation that, as the above quote illustrates, there was a vast disparity between women's position in both the public sphere and society, and men's. This is illustrated, for example, by the fact that American men earned over double the average female wage2: the minority position of women became increasingly apparent throughout the 50's and 60's as the percentage of women in the workforce was steadily increasing (estimated at around 37%3). Indeed in sectors such as administration, they were in the majority, yet their position and importance within in was simultaneously decreasing as men increasingly filled traditionally female areas such as teaching and social work while women filled the more menial jobs. Women were lower paid, were not entitled to the same benefits as men, such as sick pay, and were subject to high levels of discrimination on the ...

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