Transcript Women’s Rights

WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Top Ten List
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19
Amendment
Gave women the right to vote
 Ratified in 1920
 Declares: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall
not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State
on account of sex.”
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Suffrage Leaders & Organizations
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NAWSA (National American Women’s Suffrage Association)
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Non-threatening Tactics
 Susan B Anthony
 Carrie Chapman Catt
NWP (National Women’s Party)
 Militant
Tactics
 Alice
Paul
 Lucy Burns
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Info retrieved here on 4-2-10
Abortion
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Roe vs. Wade
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1973 Supreme court case giving women the right to have an abortion.
Anti-Abortion Backlash
1980’s
 Abortion clinics bombed
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Continuing Crisis
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Pro Choice vs. Pro Life
Birth Control
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Many women died from botched and self-induced abortions
Margaret Sanger
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Coined the phrase “birth control”
Established the
American Birth Control League in 1942
1965: the last state law prohibiting contraceptives is abolished by the US
Supreme Court.
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(one year after Sanger’s death in 1964)
Women in the Military
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Rosie the Riveter in WWII
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Symbol of women workers in the war effort
Without military benefits, women performed the same tasks as men
(except flying in combat)
 WAC
(Women’s Army Corps)
 WASP (Women’s Auxiliary Service Pilots)
 WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service
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Racial discrimination continued
Women in the Workforce
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Rising divorce rates caused women to be considered heads of households
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Women were left to raise children on low incomes by themselves
The Feminine Mystique
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Written by Betty Friedman
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Fired from her newspaper job after requesting a second maternity leave
Talks about women needing an identity “outside the home and marriage” (Ching, p. 80).
“64 cents to the man’s dollar” (Ching, P. 106)
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The wage gap between men and women in 1986…AND 1955!
Gay & Lesbian Rights
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Lesbians felt especially secluded, even from women’s groups.
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Seemed to find a place with radical feminists
Stonewall Rebellion of 1969
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Beginning of the “modern gay and lesbian liberation movement” (Ching, p, 104).
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A riot took place when police threw mostly gay men out of a bar while looking for law violators.
GLAAD
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(Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)
1985
Created to educate and end violence and discrimination against gays and lesbians.
5 times the number of protesters marched in Washington, D.C. in 1979 than in 1987 (500,000).
NOW (National Organization for Women)
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Established in 1966
Largest organization of feminist activists in the US
Works to eliminate sexism and end all oppression
Priority issues include:
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Constitutional equality amendment
Reproductive rights
Violence against women
Lesbian Rights
www.now.org
Violence Against Women
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Murder
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Domestic Violence
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4.8 million physical assaults and rapes against women every year.
Sexual Violence
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In 2005, just less than 2,000 women were killed by an intimate partner.
In 2006, the number of women in the U.S. who were raped or sexually assaulted reached 232,960. (According to the
National Crime Victimization Survey).
Who is Targeted?
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Young women
Low income women
Minorities
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