Man, I’m DONE with the Kitchen! By: Women of the 60s and 70s

Whateva! I Do What I Want! Feminism: The belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men Feminism spiked in 1920 when women won the right to vote and came alive again in the 1960s

Whateva! I Do What I Want! 1950: 1 of 3 women work for wages Hey women, you do what you want? Not exactly… Certain jobs were considered “men’s work” Women could do clerical work, domestic service, retail sales, social work, teaching, and nursing…and didn’t make much money

Whateva! I Do What I Want! Other issues 1961: Kennedy starts Presidential Commission on the Status of Women 1963: Commission reports women were paid far less than men, even when doing the same jobs Women rarely promoted to management positions, regardless of education or ability

Whateva! I Do What I Want! Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique galvanized women working for change Civil Rights Act of 1964: no discrimination on race, religion, national origin and GENDER, and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) 1966: Did the EEOC address women’s grievances? NOW thought not…

The Time for Action is NOW 1966: The National Organization for Women (NOW) is created by 28 women, including Freidan Goals of NOW: Create child-care to let mothers pursue jobs and education Pressure the EEOC to enforce the ban on gender discrimination in hiring Sex-segregated job ads become illegal Can no longer refuse a woman a job because she’s a woman…sorry Travis

The Time for Action is NOW In 3 years the membership of NOW went from 28 to 175,000 people Other Women’s Movements & Highlights 1968: New York Radical Women (militant women) threw bras, girdles, wigs, and other “women’s garbage” into a “Freedom Trash Can” and crowned a sheep Miss America at the Miss America Pageant National Women’s Political Caucus (moderate women) were led by Gloria Steinem, encouraging women to run for political office Steinem also created Ms. Magazine to treat contemporary issues from a feminist perspective

Let Her Play! Let Her Play! 1972: Title IX Mandates equal funding for male and female educational opportunities Several all-male colleges open doors to females Has become equated with sports, especially at the collegiate level At many colleges, male sports were cut to equalize the funding instead of adding female sports

The Time for Action is NOW 1972: Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Passed by Congress but never became a Constitutional amendment (needed 38 states to ratify; only got 35) New Right came about in the 1970s, worried about ERA Conservative movement focused on social, cultural, and moral problems Debated family-centered issues like whether gov’t paid for daycare Played a role in Reagan’s Presidency

Right to Choose? Right to Live? Roe v. Wade (1973) Does a woman have a right to choose whether to end her unborn fetus’s life? Decision ruled women have the right to choose an abortion during the first 3 months of pregnancy Issue still divides America today