1. Women’s Liberation Movement

2. What does this political cartoon really say?

3. What are some stereotypes women are given?
Q: How many women does it take to change a light bulb? …
A: None. Let her do the dishes in the dark!!
Q: What do you call a woman that has lost 95% of her intelligence?
A: Divorced
Q: What takes up 12 parking spaces?
A: 6 women drivers.
Q: What do you call a woman with an opinion?
A: Wrong!!
The first ten years of a girls life is spent playing with barbies. The next ten years is spent trying to look like one

4. What is Feminism?
Feminism – the theory of political, social, and economic equality of men and women.
1960s is often referred to the 2nd wave of feminism. When was the 1st?
Most women who worked during WWII, gladly gave up their jobs and returned as housewives… By the 1960s, that changed.

5. Betty Friedan Published a book entitled “The Feminine Mystique”
* The book challenged the
myth that all women
needed to be happy or
fulfilled was a husband
and a family
Co-founder of NOW
(National Organization
for Women)

6. National Organization for Women
Formed to compel the federal government to outlaw sexual discrimination

7. 4 Goals of NOW Equality with men in : Education Government
Home responsibilities
Job Opportunities

8. NOW helped pass…
The Equal Rights Amendment – an amendment that would guarantee gender equality under the law.
Proposed in the 1920s but never passed.

9. 1960s Women’s Movement average approximately 60%
In 1960, women earned on
average approximately 60%
of what men earned (same
experience and skill)
In 1963 Congress passed
The Equal Pay Act.
In the 1950s, women in the workforce was 30%, by 2000, it was 60% (about the same today)

10. What are the benefits of playing a sport?
Thinking Slide
What are the benefits of playing a sport?

11. Title IX (1972)
“No person in the United States, shall on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”

12. Title IX – Banned Discrimination in education.

13. Good or Bad?

14. High School level

15. Canon McMillan High School: 1551 students-2016/2017 year
Boys- 792
(51%)
Girls- 759
(49%)
19 Sports offered
(59%)
458 boys playing a sport
13 Sports offered
(41%)
318 girls playing a sport

17. How are women empowered or disempowered through music?
Women can be inspired through music (surviving hardships through determination)
Women could have a “voice” through music (conquer social and political obstacles)
However, women can be portrayed in a demeaning way through music (advertently or inadvertently)