2. Are the Presidents of the United States
representative of the population? What
does this imply about our society?
3. What does the decision of gender on an
individual imply about our society?
4. Evolution of Equality: Gender
• Gender binary- classification of gender into two distinct opposites
• Masculine and feminine
• Transsexuals – gender identity not consistent with their assigned
sex
• Trans man – female to male
• Trans woman- male to female
• Cisgender– gender identity matches assigned sex
• Mix gender roles or multiple gender not allowed
• Suffrage/ Enfranchisement-right to vote
5.
6. Native Americans
• Most were gender equal
• Some were (either or both) :
• Mar trifocal -family structure with mothers head of
the family
• Matrilineal system- status is inherited thought the
mother
• Femininity was related to agriculture essential to
community’s welfare
• Masculinity related to hunting, fishing and war
7. Europeans
• Christian belief
• Patriarchy society- males are the authority
• Patrilineal – status inherited from father
• Native women who held power were ignored
• Europeans choose male Natives to negotiate
• Femininity – household and child bearing
• Masculinity- agriculture
• Saw Native women as slaves to the Native men
8. How did you think Natives saw European
women and men?
10. Women’s Suffrage in the United States
• Seneca Falls Convention – 1840
• 68 women and 32 men signed the Declaration of Sentiments and
Resolutions
• Earliest known public meeting
• After 1960s, it became a historical event
• 1920- Nineteenth Amendment – Women’s Enfranchisement
• “The right of citizen of the United States to cote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex”
11. Why are men important to include when
trying to achieve rights for women?
12. • 1893 New Zealand (to vote)
• 1902 Australia*
• 1906 Finland
• 1907 Norway (to stand for election)*
• 1913 Norway**
• 1915 Denmark, Iceland*
• 1917 Canada (to vote)*, Netherlands (to stand for election)
• 1918 Austria, Canada (to vote)*, Estonia, Georgia1, Germany, Hungary, Ireland*,
Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russian Federation, United Kingdom*
• 1919 Belarus, Belgium (to vote)*, Luxembourg, Netherlands (to vote), New
Zealand (to stand for election), Sweden*, Ukraine
• 1920 Albania, Canada (to stand for election)*, Czech Republic, Iceland**,
Slovakia, United States of America (to vote)
