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Mrs. America

2020
5.0
6 reviews
MA15+
Rating
Eligible

Season 1 episodes (10)

1 Phyllis
4/15/20
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly considers another run for Congress, amid the women's movement's push for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.
2 Gloria
4/15/20
While Phyllis mobilizes grassroots support in her fight against the ERA, Gloria Steinem fends off Bella Abzug's attempts to drag her further into the political game.
3 Shirley
4/15/20
Shirley Chisholm makes a historic run for president, while Gloria struggles to play politics at the DNC. Phyllis takes her new anti-ERA organization national.
4 Betty
4/22/20
As Stop ERA grows and gains media attention, Betty Friedan, the mother of the Feminist movement, makes it her mission to take down Phyllis.
5 Phyllis & Fred & Brenda & Marc
4/29/20
Phyllis and Fred Schlafly debate superstar Feminist couple Brenda and Marc Feigan-Fasteau on television.
6 Jill
5/6/20
With a pro-ERA Republican in the White House, Phyllis protests her own party, which puts her in conflict with Republican Feminist leader, Jill Ruckelshaus.
7 Bella
5/13/20
Bella is put in charge of the first ever government-funded National Women's Conference. Phyllis and her women clash over how to best disrupt the conference.
8 Houston
5/20/20
Alice, Rosemary and Pamela cross into enemy territory at the National Women's Conference in Houston, where they come face-to-face with Feminist leaders.
9 Reagan
5/27/20
Gloria, Bella and Jill put pressure on the White House to act on their proposals from the National Women's Conference. Phyllis prepares to leverage her political victories as the 1980 presidential election draws near.
101 First Look
4/6/20
Get a FIRST LOOK at the new limited series Mrs. America.

About this show

Explores the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash that forever shifted the political landscape.

Ratings and reviews

5.0
6 reviews
Rosalind
August 7, 2020
Exactly as I recall it, having lived through that exhilarating period. Those of us who were active in the women's movement won't ever forget it. We managed to change the world by being persistent, refusing to go away or to do what we were told. It was a mass individual effort throughout the developed world, and is still moving steadily ahead on the outer edges. In Australia, black on black violence in Indigenous communities is the new frontier. Women's voices raised can defeat fists of more physically powerful figures, and they are now being heard, calm and confident they will succeed.
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abigail elizur
January 6, 2021
Fascinating and so well done! A must to watch. I am just amazed it took so long for women's rights laws to be adopted, and how women will fight against such rights.
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Jack C
August 9, 2021
A smart and engaging reveal of just how much struggle and pain it took to enact a proposition that should be a no brainer to any reasonable person.
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