11th Grade U.S. History STAAR Practice Test

The main idea this question tests is recognizing the organization formed in the 1960s that pushed for broad gender equality, including workplace equality, equal pay, abortion rights, and the Equal Rights Amendment. That organization is the National Organization for Women (NOW). Founded in 1966 by Betty Friedan and others, NOW organized to challenge discrimination in employment and pay, and it broadened the feminist agenda to reproductive rights, with abortion access as a central issue, while also championing the ERA to guarantee constitutional equality for women. The other groups have different focuses or founding histories: the ACLU centers on civil liberties, Planned Parenthood is a reproductive health organization with earlier roots, and the National Women’s Party predates NOW and concentrated on suffrage and the ERA season earlier in the century.