Man, I

1
Man, Im DONE with the Kitchen!

• By Women of the 60s and 70s

2
Whateva! I Do What I Want!

• Feminism
• The belief that women should have economic,
  political, and social equality with men
• Feminism spiked in 1920 when women won the right
  to vote and came alive again in the 1960s

3
Whateva! I Do What I Want!

• 1950 1 of 3 women work for wages
• 1960 2 of 5 women work for wages
• Hey women, you do what you want? Not exactly
• Certain jobs were considered mens work
• Women could do clerical work, domestic service,
  retail sales, social work, teaching, and
  nursingand didnt make much money

4
Whateva! I Do What I Want!

• Other issues
• 1961 Kennedy starts Presidential Commission on
  the Status of Women
• 1963 Commission reports women were paid far less
  than men, even when doing the same jobs
• Women rarely promoted to management positions,
  regardless of education or ability

5
Whateva! I Do What I Want!

• Betty Friedans The Feminine Mystique galvanized
  women working for change
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 no discrimination on
  race, religion, national origin and GENDER, and
  created the Equal Employment Opportunity
  Commission (EEOC)
• 1966 Did the EEOC address womens grievances?
  NOW thought not

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The Time for Action is NOW

• 1966 The National Organization for Women (NOW)
  is created by 28 women, including Freidan
• Goals of NOW
• Create child-care to let mothers pursue jobs and
  education
• Pressure the EEOC to enforce the ban on gender
  discrimination in hiring
• Sex-segregated job ads become illegal
• Can no longer refuse a woman a job because shes
  a womansorry Travis

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The Time for Action is NOW

• In 3 years the membership of NOW went from 28 to
  175,000 people
• Other Womens Movements Highlights
• 1968 New York Radical Women (militant women)
  threw bras, girdles, wigs, and other womens
  garbage into a Freedom Trash Can and crowned a
  sheep Miss America at the Miss America Pageant
• National Womens Political Caucus (moderate
  women) were led by Gloria Steinem, encouraging
  women to run for political office
• Steinem also created Ms. Magazine to treat
  contemporary issues from a feminist perspective

8
Let Her Play! Let Her Play!

• 1972 Title IX
• Mandates equal funding for male and female
  educational opportunities
• Several all-male colleges open doors to females
• Has become equated with sports, especially at the
  collegiate level
• At many colleges, male sports were cut to
  equalize the funding instead of adding female
  sports

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The Time for Action is NOW

• 1972 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
• Passed by Congress but never became a
  Constitutional amendment (needed 38 states to
  ratify only got 35)
• New Right came about in the 1970s, worried about
  ERA
• Conservative movement focused on social,
  cultural, and moral problems
• Debated family-centered issues like whether govt
  paid for daycare
• Played a role in Reagans Presidency

10
Right to Choose? Right to Live?

• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Does a woman have a right to choose whether to
  end her unborn fetuss life?
• Decision ruled women have the right to choose an
  abortion during the first 3 months of pregnancy
• Issue still divides America today