Gender Inequality Women's movement

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Gender InequalityWomen's movement

• Nicolas Dominic Carucci
• Chelsie Ann Brenneman

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Can You Imagine?

• Not allowed to vote
• Married women had no property rights
• Husbands had legal power over wives
• Professional Limitations (ex. Medicine/Law)
• No legitimate means for education
• Prohibited from participating in certain
  religious aspects

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Change is Good!

• 1848 First Womens rights convention
• Declaration of Sentiments
• 1850 National Womens Suffrage Assoc. Susan B.
  Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  
• 1893 Colorado becomes first state to adopt
  womens right to vote
  

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• 1896 National Assoc. of
• Colored Women founded
• Mary Church Terrell (right)
• 1919 Federal Woman
• Suffrage Amendment
• passed by HOR, Senate
• 1920 19th Amendment to the Constitution is signed
  into law
  
• 1955 DOB Daughters of Bilitis

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• 1960 Birth Control FDA Approved
• 1963 B. Friedan, Feminine Mystique
• Equal Pay Act
• 1964 Title VII Civil
• Rights Act, EEOC
• 1966 NOW (Natl Org.
• For Women) largest
• womens rights group

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• 1971 Ms. Magazine first published
• (right)
• 1973 Roe v. Wade
• established womans
• right to safe abortion
• 1986 Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson
• 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey

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Significant Women

• Susan B. Anthony
• (standing), Elizabeth
• Cady Stanton (seated)
• Betty Friedan

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Recent Developments

• Mitsubishi Motors 34 million lawsuit
• CBS Broadcasting 8 million lawsuit
• Workforce Issues
• Women account for nearly half of the labor force
  while only two fortune 500 co. have women CEOs
  or presidents.
  
• 60 of worlds 550 million working poor are
  women.

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More Workforce Issues

• More representation in the workforce does not
  mean more power
  
• Glass ceiling exists for women in upper ranks of
  companies
  
• - womens share in managerial positions in 60
  countries varies between 20-40.
  
• In 2002, women earned 76 of mens wages

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Repercussions

• Emotional effects
• Negative Economic Implications
• Loss of Perspective

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Terms to Remember

• Feminism
• movement for the political, social, and
  educational equality of women with men
  
• Glass Ceiling
• invisible barrier which prevents certain
  groups from advancing into the upper ranks of a
  company
  
• 19th Amendment
• - gave women voting rights

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Terms to Remember (cont)

• EEOC (equal employment opportunity commission)
• 1964, works to end discrimination based on
  race, color, religion, and sex in employment
  
• Equal Pay Act
• (1963) illegal for employers to pay a woman
  less than what a man would get for same job

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Any Questions,Comments,orSmart Remarks?
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Sources Consulted

• UN News Centre. Discrimination in the Global
  Workplace. March 5, 2004. http//www.globalpolicy.
  org/socecon/inequal/gender/2004/0305ilo.htm.
  (Feb. 12, 2005).
• Imbornoni, Ann-Marie. Timeline of Key Events in
  the American Womens Rights Movement.
  http//www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.htm
  l. (Feb. 13, 2005)