The men felt as if women couldn’t be leaders and they ignored them when they tried to manage the movement’s direction. The civil rights movement was catching the US citizens with a defiance for change. Anything involving politics seemed positive, however women were still thought of as unpolitical. In 1971 women felt that they have emerged from the days when they weren’t considered to be equal with men. “from the close perspective of 1970, events of the past decade provide evidence of no compelling cause of the rise of the new feminist movement.”(Freeman