{"id":131049,"date":"2016-07-10T16:24:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T22:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/how-the-civil-rights-act-only-included-women-as-a-joke.html"},"modified":"2016-07-10T16:24:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T22:24:42","slug":"how-the-civil-rights-act-only-included-women-as-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/how-the-civil-rights-act-only-included-women-as-a-joke.html","title":{"rendered":"How the Civil Rights Act only included women as a joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

'Today most American working women would probably be surprised to know that they have an unrepentantly racist, male octogenarian to thank for outlawing sex bias on the job.'<\/i> <\/p>\n

Adding "sex" into the protected categories of the Civil Right Act of 1964 was the idea of Rep. Howard Smith (D-Virginia), apparently as a joke (and to much laughter). <\/p>\n

But once some of the few women serving in Congress at the time pointed out that, without that word, white<\/i> women would arguably have fewer rights than black<\/i> women, the amendment passed, 168 to 133, "with the most votes in favor cast by Republicans and Southern Democrats," meaning that women were protected from job discrimination under federal law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nWomen Were Included in the Civil Rights Act as a Joke<\/a><\/span>
\nAnd a racist joke, at that. But working women and black civil rights lawyers had the last laugh when they brought women’s workplace rights to the courts and won.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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