2. LECTURE OBJECTIVES AND CA
STANDARDS
11-12.7. Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information
presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video,
multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem
11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and
voting rights.
11.10.7. Analyze the women’s rights movement from the era of
Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony and the passage of the
Nineteenth Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s,
including differing perspectives on the roles of women.
4. QUESTION
• In the next 100 years do you think women's rights will change?
• What does the word feminist mean to you? Does the world need more
feminist?
• Discuss with your partner.
• Make sure to fill out your KWL chart
5. BACKGROUND INFO
• Women's movement
• This movement was based in the
1960s and 1970s in the United
States and fought for equal rights
and opportunities for women.
• "Second wave" of feminism fought
for rights in politics, work, the family,
and sexuality.
• The first-wave feminism was in the late
19th century and early 20th century and
focused on women's legal rights.
6. START OF A
SOCIAL
MOVEMENT
• During World War II, many women took on the
jobs that were left to fulfill after the men went to
go fight in the war
• Nurses, factory workers, piolets, and other
roles.
• After World War II, women were forced to go
back to their homes and care for their families.
This was fueled by ads for them to buy new
washing machines, dishwashers, and
refrigerators to support their new domestic life.
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty
Freidan caused the first public indication that
change was coming with the reaction of
women.
• Housewives were stuck in utter boredom
and lack of fulfilment
7. REFORMERS AND REVOLUTIONARIES
• National Organization for Women (NOW) founded in
1966
• NOW set up task forces to work on key women's issues.
• Six measures to ensuring women's equality
• Banning employment discrimination
• Maternity leave rights
• Child-care centers
• Child-care expenses
• Equal and unsegregated education
• Equal job-training opportunities for poor women
8. CONT...
• New York Radical Women formed in New York City
in 1967
• Sept. 7,1968 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City
• "cattle auction"
• Limited beauty standards and filled limited
roles in society
• NOW helped unite women and gathered more than
500 women to New York City in November 1969.
• They met to establish a middle ground with radical
and moderate wings of the women's rights
movement.
• Leaders looked for reform and radicals looked for a
revolution.
9. NOW YOUR TURN
• What are the similarities and/or differences between the African
American struggle for equality and that of women?
• Why was the 1960s a pivitol time to start a movement?
10. GOALS OF THE MOVEMENT
1. Education
o Women wanted equal opportunties for women.
2. Legal Ineqaulities
o Prior to this movement, an unmarried woman could not have credit card or can
be fired for being pregannt.
o Women wanted same legal rights and protections as men.
3. Reproductive Rights
o Safe and legal aboritons, shelters for abused women, and reproductive
freedom.
4. Rethinking Women's Roles in Society
o Women were made for more than child-rearing and household chores.
11. SUCCESSES
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1965), women
were able to get jobs without discrimination.
• 1968, Shirley Chisholm becasme the first African-American
woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Divorce laws were created
• Employers were not allowed to fire pregnant women
• Women's studies programs were created in colleges and
universities.
• Women ran for political office
• Congress passes Title IX of the Higher Education Act in
1972, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in
any educational program.
• Roe v. Wade 1973
• Equal Credit Opportunity Act 1974
12. ERA FAILURE OR SUCCESS?
• Equal Rights Amendment would forbid any
discrimination on the basis of sex.
• Approved by Congress in 1972 but
needed the vote from 38 states and it was
not until 2020 that Virginia ratified the
amendment.
• BUT, it had to be ratified by 1979, then
was extended until 1982.
• It is not too late to add it to the
constitution, because this should have
happened 40 years ago.
• It is still currently in the courts.
13. NOW YOUR TURN
• Do you believe women used peaceful acts of protest in the 1960s
while striving for equality?
• What factors encouraged the rebirth of the feminist movement?
15. ACTIVITY
• Question: What rights did women seek in the civil rights movement
and what gender-equality issues are women fighting for today?
• Task:
Part I: Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) representing the views of a
woman in the civil rights era.
Part II: Think about what gender-equality issues women face today?
Give at least three examples in full sentences.
• Be prepared to share in class!
