Role and Status of Women 1945-1990
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- Created on: 03-06-19 14:08
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- Role & Status of Women 1945-1990
- 1945-1950's
- Ideal Housewife
- Nuclear Family
- Feminine
- single + pregnant looked down upon
- Pressure of child bearing
- New Pressures
- Working + earning
- Housework split more evenly
- Work
- 1950's women didn't work
- Husband only source of income
- Sex
- More common to share bedroom
- The Pill
- Childbearing
- Didn't have access to birth control
- Society expected women t have children
- Ideal Housewife
- 1960's & 1970's
- "Second Wave of Feminism"
- Rare to see women in higher paid jobs
- Usually underpaid as secretaries, saleswomen, and factory workers
- Equal Pay Act
- President JFK
- Passed 1963, prohibited pay discrimination based on gender
- Renewed Civil rights Act
- Women supported by President Johnson
- Adding gender to list of discrimination when applying for a job/working
- NOW
- National Organisation for Women
- Founded by Betty Freidman and Gloria Steinham
- Betty catalyzed feminist movement questioning women's roles
- Rights on abortion, domestic violence, same educational opportunities
- Around 200,000 members through this time
- Miss America Protest
- Change in Fashion
- Stopped wering makeup (feminists)
- "The new woman" - vogue etc.
- Equal Rights Ammendment
- Attempt to pass in 1972
- Received 3 less votes then required
- completely secured halt on discrimination against women
- Attempt to pass in 1972
- "Second Wave of Feminism"
- 1980s
- 1986
- Oprah Winfrey Show premiered
- 1984
- Geraldine Ferraro first female VP candidate (Walter Mondale)
- 1983
- Sally Ride youngest person and first woman in space
- 1981
- Sandra Day O'Connor first female Supreme Court judge approved unanimously
- 1986
- 1945-1950's
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