Women's+Rights

During the Kennedy Administration, the issue of Women's Rights also received attention. In 1961 John F. Kennedy made the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. This called for federal action against the issue of gender discrimination. It also gave women the right to be equally paid in employment. This put into play the Equal Pay Act, which was signed in 1963. This also made the individual states to make their own commissions on the status of women.