What are examples of sexist attitudes that women faced in the USA in the years, 1917-80?
• Paid less than men • Less likely to get a job than a white male applicant • Passed over for promotion in favour of white men • More likely to get fired than a white male • Unlikely to reach the top of their career ladder • Seen as less committed an
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How did women prove that they could do a man's work during WW1?
They worked in factories, producing war specific goods.
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What happened to the women (who had filled the jobs vacated by men) after WW1?
Many were sacked from their jobs to make way for the returning soldiers.
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How did WW1 change the law (in a positive way) for women?
19th Amendment (1920) - women were given the right to vote.
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When was the League of Women's Voters established?
1920
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Why was the League of Women's Voters established?
To ensure that women registered to vote - what would be the point of achieving the vote if women didn't exercise their right to use it?
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Why did the 19th Amendment make little impact on the lives of many women?
It was mainly rich and middle-class white women who did vote (the poorer/non-white women often simply followed the instructions of their husbands.
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How did the economic boom of the 1920s provide new opportunities for women?
Typing pools created (as businesses expanded), women also worked on factory production lines that required little physical strength or engineering aptitude.
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Between 1910-40, the number of working women rose by what?
From about 7.5m to 13m (8.3% - 9.8%)
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Why were the 1920s considered "roaring"?
The production of more cars, which resulted more roads being built, this meant people could travel further more independently. The boom in electrical goods made many domestic chores easier and quicker.
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Who were flappers?
Flappers were a group of young single women (usually city based) who – worked, cut their hair short, wore short skirts (with silk-stockings!), smoked and drank alcohol in public. Some even drove their own cars – they behaved like young single men. Th
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What usually brought an end to 'flapperdom'?
Marriage - employers ensured that only certain jobs were available to married women.
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Flappers were important in changing the perceptions of some, but why did they ultimately make little change to women's roles in society?
They were such a small percentage of women nationally.
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Why might conservatives be against 'flapperdom'?
It rejected the norms of society, their independence led to assumptions about them being sexually promiscuous. This was against the traditional beliefs about the way a women should behave/about their role in society.
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Which Supreme Court ruling limited the amount of hours that a women could work per day to 10?
Muller v. Oregon (1908).
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Why might some women have thought that the Women's Bureau of Labour were hindering women's progress?
It supported the ruling of Muller v. Oregon (1908).
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Why was the limitation of women's working hours/day a problem (hint: during the Great Depression)?
If a women was the only bread-winner in the family, then the legislation reduced the amount of money they could earn.
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Which organisation pushed for a minimum wage for women?
Women's Bureau of Labour (WBofL)
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In what year was Camp Tera set up?
1933.
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What was Camp Tera?
Privately funded (not federally) the camp was to give women jobs in the forestry industry. By 1936 there 36 similar camps & they were now funded federally showing the government was taking female unemployment more seriously, the caveat however was th
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Card 2
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They worked in factories, producing war specific goods.
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How did women prove that they could do a man's work during WW1?
Card 3
Front
Many were sacked from their jobs to make way for the returning soldiers.
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Card 4
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19th Amendment (1920) - women were given the right to vote.
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