CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN PRESENTS All rights reservedMay, 2010

FROM BLOOMERS TO THE BOARDROOM AND BEYOND Photograph courtesy of Janell Mithani Photography

The “F-word”

FEMINISM What is feminism?

THE FIRST WAVE Ownership Voting Rights Property Rights Focus

THE FIRST WOMEN’S RIGHTS CONVENTION Seneca Falls Seneca Falls July 1848 July 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the first women's rights convention in American history. Although the Convention was hastily organized and hardly publicized, over 300 men and women came to Seneca Falls, New York to protest the mistreatment of women in social, economic, political, and religious life. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the first women's rights convention in American history. Although the Convention was hastily organized and hardly publicized, over 300 men and women came to Seneca Falls, New York to protest the mistreatment of women in social, economic, political, and religious life.

First country to grant women the right to vote?

New Zealand Other countries which guaranteed women’s right to vote prior to the U.S

European countries led the way: Finland – 1906 Norway – 1913 Denmark – 1915 Russia – 1917 Germany – 1918 And in 1919: Austria Belgium Great Britain Ireland Luxembourg The Netherlands Sweden

Let Us Vote!

The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. It was ratified on August 18, United States Constitutionstate federal governmentright to vote United States Constitutionstate federal governmentright to vote

What lessons can we learn from the suffragists and early leaders of the women’s movement that are relevant to women today?

THE SECOND WAVE Women’s Empowerment Social Welfare Social Justice Focus

March on Washington Where were the women?

Rosa Parks Daisy Bates Pauli Murray

Sometimes the men had trouble seeing why I was always linking desegregation with hunger and children and other social welfare issues. Dorothy Height

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night--she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question- -"Is this all?" The Feminine Mystique: Chapter 1 … Betty Friedan

The Mary Tyler Moore Show first aired in September of 1970 and was a breakthrough of sorts with women's liberation. The Mary Tyler Moore ran for seven years on CBS and was one of the most popular and acclaimed sitcoms of the seventies. The show centered around Mary Richards, who moved to Minneapolis after a breakup with her fiancé and got a job as associate producer at a TV station.

Ms. was a brazen act of independence in the 1970s. At the time, the fledgling feminist movement was either denigrated or dismissed in the mainstream media -- if it was mentioned at all. Most magazines for women were limited to advice about saving marriages, raising babies, or using the right cosmetics.

Women’s Action Alliance National Women’s Political Caucus Coalition of Labor Union Women Women’s Media Center And Others

Equal Rights Amendment “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States on account of sex.” “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States on account of sex.”

Marian Ash

Who do you consider a role model from the Second Wave?

Transition to today

THE THIRD WAVE New Reality Cracking the Glass Ceiling Work/Life Balance Focus

FEMINISM

Mary Baker Eddy Aimee Semple McPherson Mother Teresa 21 st Century --- Women’s Rights Movement

Rabbi Denise Eger "Rabbi Denise Eger has been an agent of change in our congregation, in our community, and indeed on a national level," David Levy, executive vice president of the Congregation Kol Ami Board of Trustees.

Mommy Track? Or Mommy Trap?

Is the “mommy track” unfairly criticized?

Mommy Track Flexibility

Feminism Today Lindsey Horvath I believe active political participation (voting, in particular); healthy body image; pay equity; and ending violence against women are among the top issues facing young women who are finding their voice and presence in the public sphere.

Amy Elaine Wakeland We hear an awful lot about professional women's double burden, which is a real and serious issue that leaves a lot of women I know chronically exhausted. But …

we don’t hear nearly as much about working- class women who must manage this double burden without any kind of workplace flexibility, without access to reliable and affordable child care services and without much ability to afford conveniences, like occasionally taking their families out for dinner. Amy Elaine Wakeland

What do you believe is the most important women’s rights issue that we face today?

FROM BLOOMERS TO THE BOARDROOM---AND BEYOND A History of Feminism Written by: Rosemary Enzer, Chair; Lynn Brandstater, Marjory Hopper, and Anne Marie Johnson. Additional research by Katherine Winans. Bloomer photograph by Janell Mithani. All right reserved May, 2010