Rooted in History: Feminism in China

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Rooted in HistoryFeminism in China the United
States

• Elizabeth Koepp, Amanda Lee, Erin Long, Laura
  Murray,
• Natasha Scearse

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Abstract

• Women have grown from being defined to defining
  their own role in society.
• Most prominent through the American and Chinese
  cultures.
• Research how both groups of women came to the
  point they are at today.

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Introductions

• United States

• China

• 1950s Women Hold Up Half the Sky
• Communist Control in 1949
• Promote equality with 3-part strategy
• Facing economic issues of women
• Integrating women into economic development
• All-China Womens Federation

• 1950s Standard Roles, But Changing
• Housekeeping raising families
• Women entering the workplace (WWII)
• 1956 35 of women were in the labor force.
• Limited positions

• Pre-1949
• Before Communist Party
• Serve the family
• Foot-binding
• Arranged marriages/ Affairs
• Dependent on the husband

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The 1960s

• United States

• China

• The Beginning of the End
• Jacqueline Kennedy
• The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
• Multiple acts created
• National Organization for Women
• Janis Joplin Shirley Chisholm
• First National Womens Liberation Conference in
  Chicago

• Class Labels
• Hereditary class labels
• Negative associations with former
  landlord/wealthy peasant class

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1970s

• United States

• China

• The Liberation
• Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
• National Womens Political Caucus
• Gloria Steinem Billie Jean King
• Roe vs. Wade
• Little League Baseball opens to girls, 1974
• Admitted into U.S. Military academies, 1976

• One-Family, One-Child Policy
• Established in 1979
• Great effects on Chinese women

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1980s

• United States

• China

• The Unstoppable Women
• Steps to delete sexual harassment.
• Sandra Day OConnor Sally Ride Geraldine
  Ferraro
• Kirchberg vs. Feenstra
• Expiration of the ERA
• Change in military percentage

• Nothing extremely important occurred during the
  1980s to further Chinese womens rights.

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1990s

• United States

• China

• Cracking the Glass Ceiling
• Glass Ceiling Commission
• Success in the Olympics
• Take Our Daughters to Work Day
• Creation of many different acts
• WNBA

• United Nations Fourth World Womens Conference
• 1995 in Huajro
• 42 organizations in China

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Conclusion

• China and the United States got to almost the
  exact same place in womens rights but in
  completely different ways.

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The End