Feminism From Suffrage to Third Wave 1
Suffrage Realignment The NAWSA becomes the League of Women Voters 2
Suffrage Realignment The National Woman’s Party searches for a new identity and decides on Equal Rights Amendment 3
1920s Social Feminism Sheppard Towner Act, Florence Kelley 4
1930s New Deal Women leaders gain visibility in Roosevelt’s Administration Frances Perkins Mary McLeod Bethune Eleanor Roosevelt 5
World War II 6 million women enter the workforce Married women outnumber unmarried women in the workforce for the first time 6
World War II 350,000 women serve in the armed forces 7
1950s and the “domestic ideal” Baby Boom, suburbia, and consumerism 8
Origins of Second Wave Feminism Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, Equal Pay Act,
Origins of Second Wave Civil Rights Movement, Ella Baker, Civil Rights Act of
Origins of Second Wave Betty Friedan, Feminine Mystique The “problem that has no name” 11
National Organization for Women Founded by Martha Griffiths, Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray and others 12
Ms. Magazine Gloria Steinem 13
Equal Rights Amendment Passes Congress in
ERA Ratification effort Houston meeting,
ERA opponents Phyllis Schlafly and Jerry Falwell 16
Third Wave Feminism Where are we headed? 17