Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow The Women's Movement in Recent Decades 1American women the 1960s were hardly a minority. They constituted 51 percent of the population. In the course of the decade, however, many women began to identify with members of other oppressed groups and to demand a liberation of their own. By the 1970s, public awareness of the issue had increased dramatically, and the role of women in American life had changed more radically than that of any other group in the nation. 2The complaints of the feminists were many. Women were, they argued, barred from educational institutions, from professions, from politics, and from countless other areas of American life. They faced innumerable forms of legal and economic discrimination, including the widespread practice of paying women less than men even when they were doing equal work. 3By the late 1960's, such resentments had attracted a large following among middle-class women and the feminist movement had gained substantial strength. Women won important new legal protections and substantial economic and political advances. In 1964, for example, Congress incorporated into the Civil Rights Act and amendment- Title VII- that extended to women the protection of the law in the struggle against Discrimination. In 1971, the government extended its Affirmative Action guidelines to include women Inking sexism with racism as an officially acknowledged social problem. 4Of all the feminist crusades of the 1960s and 1970s, none united more women from more different backgrounds than the campaign for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution. Congress approved the amendment in 1972 and sent it to the states, and for a while it seemed that eventual ratification a matter of time. By the end of the 1970s, however, the momentum behind the amendment had died. In 1980, the Republican Party after forty years of support for the idea of the ERA-wrote into its platform a new plank opposing the amendment. And two years later, the amendment finally died when the time allotted for ratification expired. The Equal Rights Amendment had been the central demand of American feminism since it was first proposed in 1923. But in 1982, it was a hope still far from realization 5The women's movement was at once the most potent symbol and the most glaring exception to the general impulse toward political and cultural "liberation" of the late 1960s. Feminism expressed both a desire to win social justice through collective political action a desire that characterized the New Left and a concern for the individual fulfillment and personal freedom a concern that typified much of the counterculture. But it differed from both in one fundamental respect: its success. The women's movement may not have fulfilled all its goals by the early 1980s. But it had achieved fundamental and permanent changes in the position of women in American life; and it has itself become a lasting political and social force. Which of the following facts included in the passage BEST supports the author's contention that the women’s movement did not achieve all its goals?