Friday, July 13, 2007

Outline

Introduction
During the 1960s and 70s, women were discriminated against in many different aspects. They were not able to use and share their many talents and skills with the world. They had a limited choice when it came to what they could do with their lives.
I. Politics
a. Only a handful of women held political office
b. As late as 1970, the Ohio Supreme Court held that a wife was at most a superior servant to her husband without legally recognized feelings or rights
II. Education
a. Major Universities limited the number of female students they accepted
b. Women who went to college were looked down upon for not wanting to fulfill their duties at home
III. Employment
a. Newspapers divided job ads into “male” and “female” sections
b. Women were limited to low wage clerical positions
IV. Opening America’s eyes
a. The Feminine Mystique
i. Published in 1963 by Betty Friedan
ii. Friedan had written articles in 1940s about pay discrimination against women workers and racism in the workplace
iii. It painted a devastating picture of talented, educated women trapped in a world that viewed marriage and motherhood as their primary goals
iv. She received desperate letters from female readers relating how the suburban dream had become a nightmare
b. President Kennedy started the President’s Commission on the Status of Women in 1963
i. Eleanor Roosevelt was appointed the chairman
ii. Documented discrimination against women in virtually every area of American life
V. Bra Burners
a. The new feminism burst onto the national scene at the Miss America beauty pageant of 1968
b. Protestors filled a “freedom trashcan” with objects of “oppression”-girdles, brassieres, high-heeled shoes, and copies Playboy and Cosmopolitan
c. Inside the hall, demonstrators held banners with the slogans “Freedom for Women” and “Women’s Liberation”
VI. New legislation and government action
a. The Equal Pay Act was passed in 1963
i. Banned sex discrimination among holders of the same job
b. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed
i. Illegalized employment discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race, religion, and national origin
c. The National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed in 1966
i. Its mission was to function as a legal “watchdog” for women of all races
VII. Conclusion

2 comments:

Unknown said...

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Daniella said...

glad u finally got it up here