Notes of women's civil rights in America 1865-1992

2. Broke from the idea that women only satisfied in home

3. Anti-feminist movement

5. Higher pay

6. End to discrimination in work

8. Many stayed in workplace

9. More from WW2 than WW1

10. Capable of hard work

11. Can work and look after household

14. Right to decide about their bodies

15. Limited

16. Mainly middle class girls

20. Cemented other Acts/ Bills/ Amendments

22. More divorces

24. Homestead Act 1862 able to own land in their own right

25. Wilson called for an amendment for the vote

26. Roosevelt New Deal

27. Social Security Act 1935 welfare benefits for poor helped married women but not designed for them in particular

28. Aid to Dependent Children 1935 designed for women with young families and no male head of household frequently humiliating process

29. Fair Labor Standards Act 1938 new minimum wage levels still earned less than men

30. 19th Amendment 1920 vote

31. Shephard-Towner Act 1921-1929 funding for maternity and infant health education resisted by medical profession

32. Women’s Bureau Department of Labor 1920

33. Comstock Laws 1873 the sale, advertisement and distribution of contraceptives was illegal

34. 21st Amendment stops prohibition 1933

35. 18th Amendment prohibition 1917

36. Kennedy wanted civil rights act considered women’s status seriously policies failed to deliver promises

37. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission ensures Civil Rights Act and Equal Pay Act are fulfilled

38. Civil Rights Act 1964 no discrimination on the grounds of race or gender

39. Equal Pay Act 1964 stated there should be no discrimination due to race or gender in pay

40. Roe v. Wade 1973 abortion

41. Clinton 1992 huge opportunities for women in politics

42. Nixon vetoed Child Development Act 1972

43. Equal Credit Opportunity Act 1974 banned discrimination in access to credit due to race or gender

45. Temperance and prohibition

46. Women’s Crusade 1973

47. Women’s Christian temperance Union (WCTU) 1874

48. Anti-Saloon League (ASL) 1893

49. Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR) 1929

50. Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (AAPA) 1918

51. Rights in the workplace

52. National Consumers’ League (NCL) 1899

53. Women’s Trade Union League 1921

54. National Association of Colored Women (NACW) 1896 vote anti-lynching education

55. Ida B. Wells & Mary Talbert

56. Campaign to abolish slavery

57. Lucretia Mott

58. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

59. Susan B. Anthony

60. Campaign for suffrage

61. American Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) 1869

62. Carrie Chapman Catt

63. Alice Paul Congressional Union for Women’s Suffrage 1915 (became National Women’s Party post 1917)

64. Women’s Rights Convention 1848

65. Flappers 1920s

66. Eleanor Roosevelt role model for many women

67. Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) campaigned for since 1920’s but never passed by Congress almost passed in 1972 but time ran out in 1982

68. Schlafly established National committee to Stop ERA 1972

69. Campaign for birth control, abortion and the right to control their bodies

70. Margaret Sanger American Birth Control League (ABCL) 1921 backed my Rockefeller

71. National Organization for the Repeal of the Abortion Laws (NARAL) 1969

72. Phyllis Schlafly anti-feminist anti-abortion

73. National Right to Life Committee

74. Betty Friedan ‘The Feminine Mystique’ 1963

75. National Organization for Women (NOW) 1966 used all forms of protest

76. National Women’s Political Caucus 1971 more women in politics through training and support

77. Gloria Steinem believed women could have a family and career

79. WW1 saw women in workplace but returned to home, little change

80. WW2 many women stayed in workplace after war, proved they could work and handle home life

81. 1920’s and the Depression many needed to work in Depression although frowned on, employed agreed for cheaper labour 1920’s mostly the emergence of contraception and flappers

82. Working women appears to be a major driving force, more women in workplace, the more women want rights

83. Divisions amongst women themselves divided by class and race for most of the period reactionary group to all campaigns major inhibitor of rights

84. Cold War increased opportunities all talents needed in space race etc. needed to show that America was the land of the free

85. New Feminism 1960s gave women new confidence some suspicious as many working women had no children belief that it went against traditions

86. Technological advances allowed for more women in the workplace especially in white-collar work

87. Expansion of educational opportunities allowed women to train and create careers

88. Political awareness more later in the period politicians targeted women for votes

90. Obstacles remained married women had more obstacles than single women

91. Importance of the home and family increased compared to the 1960s

93. Despite divisions, many groups campaigned for similar issues, focusing on social issues (e.g. slavery, child labour, temperance)

94. No vote due to 15th Amendment although some States would include vote for white women

95. Expansion of workforce providing more opportunities for unmarried women

96. Homestead Act 1862 gives women more freedom by owning property

98. Society and its attitudes

99. Women themselves

100. Federal Government