Editing 1970s (section)

===Role of women in society===
[[File:Isabel Martinez de Peron.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Isabel Perón]] becomes the first woman President of Argentina in 1974 and the first woman non-monarch head of state in the [[Western hemisphere]].]]
[[File:Margaret Thatcher at White House.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Margaret Thatcher]] shortly before becoming the United Kingdom's first woman Prime Minister in 1979. Thatcher's political and economic agenda began the first government committed to [[neoliberalism]].]]
The role of women in society was profoundly altered with growing [[feminism]] across the world and with the presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state outside monarchies and heads of government in a number of countries across the world during the 1970s, many being the first women to hold such positions. Non-monarch women heads of state and heads of government in this period included [[Isabel Perón]] as the first woman President in Argentina and the first woman non-monarch head of state in the [[Western hemisphere]] in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, [[Elisabeth Domitien]] becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, [[Indira Gandhi]] continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977 (and taking office again in 1980), [[Sirimavo Bandaranaike]], Prime minister of Sri Lanka (Former [[Ceylon]]) and first female head of government in the world, re-elected in 1970, Prime Minister [[Golda Meir]] of Israel and acting chairman [[Soong Ching-ling]] of the People's Republic of China continuing their leadership from the sixties, [[Lidia Gueiler Tejada]] becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, [[Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo]] becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and [[Margaret Thatcher]] becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979. Both Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher would remain important political figures in the following decade in the 1980s.

Pope Paul VI recognized the popularity of [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] feminists, but ultimately held to tradition when it came to leaving bishops, priests, and deacons a male-only position.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1093360 |title=Religions of America: Ferment and Faith in an Age of Crisis: A New Guide and Almanac |date=1975 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |editor-first=Leo|editor-last=Rosten |isbn=0-671-21970-7 |location=New York |pages=472 |oclc=1093360}}</ref>