7. In the 1950s, increasing numbers of women, especially from ... backgrounds, began to challenge their traditional role and became increasingly frustrated with life as a housewife.
upper middle class
middle class
working class
upper class
8. Who set up NOW?
Betty Friedan
Caitlin Moran
Eleanor Roosevelt
Phyllis Schlafly
9. When was The Feminine Mystique published?
1967
1965
1966
1963
1964
1962
10. At first people listened to Eleanor Roosevelt because she was Roosevelt's wife but she was so popular that when he died she was urged to run as .... She refused and continued to campaign for women's rights until death in ....
At first people listened to Eleanor Roosevelt because she was Roosevelt's wife but she was so popular that when he died she was urged to run as vice president. She refused and continued to campaign for women's rights until death in 1962.
At first people listened to Eleanor Roosevelt because she was Roosevelt's wife but she was so popular that when he died she was urged to run as vice president. She refused and continued to campaign for women's rights until death in 1970.
At first people listened to Eleanor Roosevelt because she was Roosevelt's wife but she was so popular that when he died she was urged to run as president. She refused and continued to campaign for women's rights until death in 1960.
At first people listened to Eleanor Roosevelt because she was Roosevelt's wife but she was so popular that when he died she was urged to run as president. She refused and continued to campaign for women's rights until death in 1967.
11. These women's rights groups challenged discrimination in courts and, in a series of cases between 1966 and 1971, secured $... in back pay owed to women who hadn't been paid equal wages to men.
$25 million
$40 million
$30 million
$15 million
12. The results of Eleanor Roosevelt's commission to investigate the status of women at work were reported in ... and highlighted women's second class status in employment.
1961
1960
1963
1962
13. Members of NOW believed that progress was too slow and that the ... didn't take female issues seriously.
Equal Opportunities Commission
Equal Opportunities Corporation
Equal Opportunities Conference
Equal Opportunities Committee
14. What does NOW stand for?
the National Opportunities for Women
the Need Of Women
the National Organisation for Women
the Now Or Work
15. What percentage of doctors were women?
7%
5%
10%
13%
16. Women only earned what percentage of men's wages who did the same job?
30-40%
50-60%
60-70%
40-50%
17. Women who went out to work instead of getting married were...
treated as first class citizens and were rewarded for their hard work.
treated with great suspicion by the rest of society.
considered as selfless and were admired for this reason.
18. Eleanor Roosevelt was asked by President ... to head a commission to investigate the status of women at work.
Johnson
Truman
Roosevelt
Kennedy
Eisenhower
19. Eleanor Roosevelt, ... Roosevelt's wife campaigned for equality for women before the war. During the war she pressed for childcare for working women on the home front.
Franklin D.
Theodore F.
Harry S.
William B.
20. Women had a very traditional role in US society in the ...
