1. The Women’s Movement

2. Free Write
Do you think women have achieved complete equality? Why or why not?

3. How life was different?
School Family life & Dating Work & Life for Men

4. The Awakening

5. Critiques
Publication of “The Feminine Mystique”
1963

6. After seeing the successes of the Civil Rights Movement
Women organized to argue for equality and opportunities

7. Political Goals Job Opportunities Educational Opportunities
Economic Opportunities
Equal treatment

8. National Organization for Women
1966- N.O.W. focused on legal and political action for womens’ equality
LEADERS:
Betty Friedan
Gloria Steinem

9. Critiques
“It makes you very sensitive – raw, even this consciousness. Everything, from the verbal assault on the street, to a ‘well-meant’ sexist joke your husband tells, to the lower pay you get at work (for doing the same job a man would be paid more for), to television commercials, to rock-song lyrics, to the pink or blue blanket they put on your infant in the hospital nursery, to speeches by male ‘revolutionaries’ that reek of male supremacy – everything seems to barrage your aching brain…You begin to see how all-pervasive a thing is sexism quoted in Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement

10. Important Laws Equal Pay Act (1963) -mandated equal pay for equal jobs
Executive Order (1967) – bans gender discrimination in gov’t hiring
Title IX (1972) – mandates equal funding for girls’ sports

11. “The Personal is Political”
Issues that had traditionally been seen as personal were reframed as political issues:
Domestic Violence
Sexual Harassment
Abortion
Contraceptives
Griswold v. Connecticut: fundamental “right to privacy”

12. Changing the World

13. The Pill First approved for contraceptive use by Congress in 1960
By 1970, 12 million women on the pill
Significance
Pregnancy now a choice made by women
Family size changed as a result

14. Abortion
Roe v. Wade (1973) made abortion legal [in first three months of pregnancy]
Decision based on the idea that women had the right to privacy and control over their own bodies

15. ERA Equal Rights Amendment (ERA):
“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
Proposed in 1972 – how long do you think it took to pass?

16. “If I could choose an amendment to add to the Constitution, it would be the Equal Rights Amendment. I think we have achieved that through legislation, but legislation can be repealed, it can be altered. So I would like my granddaughters, when they pick up the Constitution, to see that notion – that women and men are persons of equal stature – I’d like them to see that is a basic principle of our society.” 

17. Backlash
-Backlash against the movement “Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.” - Phyllis Schlafly -Others blamed feminism for ruining the traditional family, hurting children, and many of society’s other ills

18. New Career Opportunities

19. But change was already happening…

20. Gains & Roadblocks

21. Women in the Workplace
Today, 26 women are serving as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies (5.2%).
Just 20 years ago, there were no female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

22. Gender Wage Gap
In 2012, the median hourly earnings for female workers 16 and older were 84% of men’s earnings. The gap is much smaller among young workers ages 25 to 34; women in this age group made about 93% of what men in this age group made. In 1980: earnings of all employed women were 64% as much as all employed men received.

23. Women in the Media
Another obstacle to equality is portrayal of women in the media

24. Women make up 50.8% of the population
It is estimated that, at the current rate of change, it will take until 2085 for women to reach parity with men in leadership roles in our country.

26. Homework Read the excerpt from “When Everything Changed”
Answer the questions at the end on a separate sheet of paper

27. Extra

28. Critiques
“It makes you very sensitive – raw, even this consciousness. Everything, from the verbal assault on the street, to a ‘well-meant’ sexist joke your husband tells, to the lower pay you get at work (for doing the same job a man would be paid more for), to television commercials, to rock-song lyrics, to the pink or blue blanket they put on your infant in the hospital nursery, to speeches by male ‘revolutionaries’ that reek of male supremacy – everything seems to barrage your aching brain…You begin to see how all-pervasive a thing is sexism quoted in Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement