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| 35 countries w/ out reps., married women not allowed, only young/ prostitutes allowed to attend to find husbands, 159 male sports vs. 86 female |
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| women award for men not competitors, 2012; women can participate in all events, all countries have females now |
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| 2 ncaa champs, Rookie Year/ MVP, WNBA MVP twice, got in trouble for getting pregnant |
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| Swoopes first drafted; she won 4 champs and was 6x allstar |
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| Says there is a glass ceiling for women; GOOGLE |
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| 1988 1st female pres. candidate, pilat @ 15, Harvard (14 women v. 500 men), House armed service commitee (1st female), 1972 colorados first congresswoman, Worked under Clinton |
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| youngest gov. in Alaska, Far-right, christian, reformer, 80% approval rate, V.P. candidate |
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| boarding school w/ family, to be doctor, read @ night, 29 colleges only Jeneva said yes because that was joke, 1849-top of class, Lost eye in Paris |
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| PHD Harvard, Princenton MIT and Harvard proff., first physics female proof., wrote many books |
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| 1900's-2.8% women in college, Mid century- "women's subjects", Today- Women grad. more and w/ higher GPAs, men drop out more |
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| Science, Tech., Engineering, Math... 19-21% of degrees are from women |
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| "I love Lucy", Acted as wife "womens sphere", "Lucy" couldn't handle a job but Lucille actually very intelligent |
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| Took female issues and put them onto television, GOOGLE |
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| VHS retaliation to porn, porn protected by 1st amendment, Diane in Cheers was a grad. student |
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| Buffy Vamprire Slayer; gender role reversal |
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| House wife (@ discrepancy of husband), Proffesors, secondary education, women in films paid according to weight **thin actress 22,000 more than average**200,000 male actor v. 160,000 female actor**, Women are heavily involved in medical field but not in higher paying fields like specialized surgeries |
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| gulf war=integrated units, tried to avoid females in combat, given more rights to combat positions today (not special forces) |
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| const. for US to only draft males |
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| First female commander of fighter squadron in history |
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| Highest rates of rape/ murder |
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| Combat Positions for women |
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| are best positions to rank up, 2012; not fair to women to not be in combat; 1994 women in combat ban over turned; more women in combat in Iraq and Afghan... dangerous cause women more prone to PTSD |
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| "common bond of brotherhood make all men one"-Jim Kepner |
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| first nat'l distributed lesbian publication, readings held around nation |
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| section three of 1996 DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT; nat;l gov. wouldn't recognize same-sex marriage, fed taxes and health care plans, U.S. vs. Windsor= unconstitutional |
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| showtime TV show; hoping to gain more viewrs, upscale, sexual, diverse, trendy, beautiful, not stereotypical "tom boy" type of lesbian, ALL ABOUT SEX (bisexual, multiple partners, monogamy) |
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| American attorney and academic, currently a professor of social policy, law and women's studies at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management; went to Yale; attorney-adviser to Clarence Thomas who was then the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights; written books, taught at UC berkley; accused Thomas of harrasment in 1991 interview causing controversy when he was elected to supreme court |
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| plaintiff in the American employment discrimination case Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. She has since become a women's equality activist; retired from Goodyear in 1998 and then sued the company for paying her significantly less than her male counterparts.[6] The lawsuit eventually reached the Supreme Court, which denied her claim because she did not file suit 180 days from her first pay check even though she said she didn't know it at the time; paid $3,727 per month; the lowest paid male area manager received $4,286 per month, the highest paid, $5,236.' led to Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to loosen the timeliness requirements for the filing of a discrimination suit |
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| Alice Paul 1923, equal rights not denied/ abridged, Sus. Anth.'s cousin first congressman to intro bill, 1923-1970, never amended |
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| 1932, democrat, progressive, new deal, labor laws, pension, social security d |
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| Director wasp, pioneer pilot, females while males fight war, foster family, pilots license 1932 |
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| Women's air force service pilots, 1200 v 25k applicants, social service not military, no honors or pension, Hous, TX |
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| 1909 in Illinois response to Jim Crowe and lynchings, white and black, founded by Jane Adams, anti-step but equal |
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| Secretary NAACP, lower middle class married seamstress, bus issue |
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| Women's political council |
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| Jo an Robinson, made 30K flyers to organize bus boycott, not possible w/ out, Afr. Amer. women |
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| Womens political council, Montgomery bus boycotts |
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| Feb 1960; woolworths kitchen counter |
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| 1963, 1/3 white, C.R. Act of 1964 |
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| No discriminate based on "race, sex, religion" |
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| Pres Johnson, ensure title 7 followed, addressed only race issues even tho 37% of complaints by females |
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| Bachelor from Howard, turned down by unc (black) and harvRd (woman).. Women's rights need pressure group like NAACP to pressure EEOC |
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| Different states had laws limiting/ punishing the use/ dissemination of BC |
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| Worked w/ Sanger, reproductive specialist, rabbit embryo |
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| Wealthy, scizo,didn't want kid for this reason, always interested in science, funding for pill (enovid), first female from MIT; biology, BC advocate with Sanger |
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| infertility specialist, gyno, intense catholic, pincus turned to him for help, comm stock laws could end his career, in favor of BC |
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| 1965, PP(mary sanger founded) find case to have comm stock laws thrown out, this case perfect cause dr from Yale work at PP, win due to "implied right to privacy", supreme court, only married couples |
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| laws, policy, NOW vs. revolutionize society, no organizations |
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| 22 of 38 states ratify 1972, DNC endorses, NIxon endorses, killed by schlafly "stop era" and reagan being against it |
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| stop era, higher education, supported war effort, political office, anti-feminist, "why get rid of elevated status", fear, ERA= anti religion, anti american, stopper ERA |
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| ^ %'s of participation in PHD, medical, and law programs substantially; must have womens athletics also access to gyy, womens locker rooms, etc |
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| Norma MCorvery aka Jane Roe; one child trouble supporting gets pregnant in Texas were abortion is illegal; Wade=county district attorney; supreme court; YES "right to privacy" also applies to abortion; trimester regulations; 72% supported |
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| all male jury, lawyer complained that unfair trial; not cross section of society if all male juror pool; violated 14th amend; supreme court agrees; breaks down stereo types; womens sphere is killed |
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| used fear, pulled in religious views, ERA was anti christian and thus anti american; very anti-gay and anti-abortion |
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| PAC by jerry falwell, "i love america" rallies against threats to america including gays, porn, and womens lib |
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| elected 1980, anti-era, era killed |
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| 1st female supreme court, only 9 at time, partially due to reagan wanting to gain more profemale sentiment; az ranch; live w/ relatives to go to school; stanford as her father (close w/) had dreamed; husband supported work desire; no job at law firm so worked at public firm at front with secretaries; speaker of house in AZ; changed all anti-female laws; judge in AZ; nominated by Reagan |
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| was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. |
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| was a U.S. government agency created during World War II to consolidate existing government information services and deliver propaganda both at home and abroad. OWI operated from June 1942 until September 1945. Through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media |
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| representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies.[ |
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| book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States; women unhappy as house wives |
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| student nonviolent coordinating commitee; organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, sit ins, march on washington, etc.. ella baker |
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| U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1942, CORE was one one of the "Big Four" civil rights organizations, along with the SCLC, the SNCC, and the NAACP; desegragation in chicago |
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| Friedan wrote down on napkin during conference with pauli murray and others, Nat org of women; spawn from failure of EEOC to repsond to sex discrim; modern feminsim returns; pres=freidan, VP=rich graham |
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| employment law, there are some select, few qualities or an attributes that employers are allowed to consider when making decisions on the hiring and retention of employees—qualities that, when considered in other contexts, would constitute discrimination and, thus, in violation of civil rights employment law. |
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| miss america 1968 (freedom trash can), radical, revolutionize society, not change policies |
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| African-American author who has written about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi, joining the Civil Rights Movement, and fighting racism against blacks in the United States beginning in the 1960s; Coming of Age in Mississippi; faced male dominance and terror from white supremacists during her days in the struggle, Anne refused the idea of being sheltered and worked as hard as any man did for independence; faced serious threats |
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| ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public; Just one year prior, the same Congress had passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibited wage differentials based on sex; did it allow men to monopolize jobs by limiting/ protexting women |
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| American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Sanger's efforts contributed to several judicial cases that helped legalize contraception in the United States. Sanger is a frequent target of criticism by opponents of birth control and has also been criticized for supporting eugenics, but remains an iconic figure in the American reproductive rights movement; pamphlets and info on contraception |
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| The Year of the Woman was a popular label attached to 1992 after the election of a number of female Senators in the United States; The hotly contested Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas involving the allegations of Anita Hill raised the question of the dominance of men in the Senate. |
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