Achieve gender equity in social policy in 20th century

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Why, according to Kessler-Harris, has it been so difficult to achieve gender equity in social policy in 20th Century America?

Please include

1) a brief explanation of separate spheres ideology and how it contributed to this problem;

2) an explanation of protective legislation for women including the reasons why women reformers sought it (and its implications for gender equity);

3) the most important ways the 1935 Social Security Act was gendered, and why women reformers supported that legislation;

4) what implications the 1946 Employment Act had for gender roles; and

5) how, when, and why the notion of fairness for women changed from difference to equality. Answer MUST be based on the Kessler-Harris book In Pursuit of Equity.

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