Women Fight for Equality

Read Chapter 31-2 in your The Americans online textbook. (begins on page 982). Answer the following and post to your blog. Due Tuesday prior to class.

Title: Women Fight for Equality Labels: Women's_Rights, Friedan, Schlafly, Steinem, Roe_v_Wade, ERA, NOW, Feminism,

Directions: As you read about the rise of a new women’s movement, take notes to explain how each of the following helped to create or advance the movement.

1. Experiences in the workplace
Certain jobs were considered "men's work". Women were rarely promoted to management and made far less than men did. WOmen learning of this led them to want change.

2. Experiences in social activism
Women were often brushed aside in activist groups which led them to form their own smaller groups


3. "Consciousness raising"
these were small groups formed by women where they could share their experiences and learn that many other women felt the same way that they did

4. Feminism
feminism was the belief that women should have equal political and social rights as men. It was the reasoning behind the push for women's equality.

5. Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan wrote the book, The feminine Mystique, which was a book about the problem of women feeling dissatisfied with their roles.

6. Civil Rights Act of 1964
This helped the women's movement because it made illegal discrimination based on sex

7. National Organization for Women (NOW)
was a group formed to pursue womens' goals
such as the creation of child care facilities and illiminating discrimiantion based on sex in the workplace

8. Gloria Steinem and Ms. Magazine
GLoria Steinem was a femisnist activist who formed Ms. MAgazine whihc addressed feminism and womens' issues.

9. Congress
Congress passed laws that made gender discrimination in education illegal, also the equaL rights amendament which guarenteed that men and women would have the same protetion under the law

10. Supreme CourtRoe v. Wade which ruled that women have the right to have an abortion in the first 3 months of pregnaqncy.


11. The Equal rights Amendment would have guaranteed equal rights under the law, regardless of gender. Who opposed this amendment? Why?
Phyllis Schlaffly opposed this amendment because she thought it would lead to the drafting of women, a lack of protection under the law for homemakers and same-sex marriage and would make husbands not have to provide for their families.
Posted by Mr. Hyer at 9:24