Civil Rights Act 1964 Impact

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The Impact of the Civil Right Act of 1964 It’s the year of 1963, envision yourself as one of the many students protesting during the Birmingham Campaign. You look at the crowd of students around you as the Birmingham Police Department confronts the crowd. The place becomes chaotic in a matter of moments from what was supposed to be a peaceful protest to students being bitten by police dogs and hosed down. How do you feel about young Americans fighting for what is right? This event and many other events increased public awareness to racial segregation in the South which led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Through many struggles, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 led the way for true equality for all Americans while creating a long-lasting…show more content…
It basically made “male only” job illegal by providing women access to new job opportunities and allowed them a chance to fight discrimination. We can see the strong impact it made, “Before passage of the Civil Rights Act, fewer than 3% of all lawyers and fewer than 1% of all federal judges were female. Today, women account for almost one-third of attorneys and three of the nine Supreme Court justices“(Coontz). This startling statistic show women over the last 50 years have taken the opportunities provided by Title VII to be employed in a field that was once dominated by men. With the Title VII, women have broken the unwritten tradition that women are supposed to stay home and become the caretaker. However, women are still facing inequality in the workplace today, (2010) with the fact that women today make about 81% of what a men makes (“Women’s Earnings as a Percent of Men’s in 2010”). This did show an improvement from 1980 when women made about 63% of what a men made (“Women’s Earnings as a Percent of Men’s in 2010”). After the Civil Right Act of 1964, many states followed suit with the federal law and passed their own legislation on sex-based discrimination in the workplace. The term sexual harassment later developed as a form of sex discrimination under title VII. It was when men in power could request for sexual favors with the threat of job and promotions towards women. Based on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission statistics, the charges alleging sexual harassment has been declining as, 7,944 in 2010 to 6,862 in 2014. It goes to show that this a positive trend presently as more people are aware of offensive act there would be less incident of that happening. Clearly Title IV has helped women in the workplace by providing
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