Ch. 17-2

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Ch. 17-2

• The Womens Rights Movement

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Why It Matters

• After WWII, most women went back to their homes
• Women will change the landscape of
• Careers and political issues

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A Womens Movement Arises

• This was the second wave of feminism
• Equality with men
• First in 1840s in Seneca Falls, NY
• Right to vote came in 1920
• Little else changed

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Seeking to Redefine Traditional Roles

• Civil Rights movement inspired women
• Women and Blacks faced many of the same issues
• Brought Black and White women together
• More then a housewife
• Betty Frieden wrote The Feminine Mystique

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Looking for Better Work

• 1950s-1960s increase in women in the workplace
• Women often got deadend jobs
• Example Sandra Day OConnor, first female
  Supreme Court Justice faced discrimination
  looking for a law firm

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Women Find Their Voice

• National Organization for Women (NOW)
• Dedicated to true equality for women
• Galvanized the womens movement

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NOWs Goals and Tactics

• Break discrimination in workplace and in
  education
• Attacked stereotypes
• Equal Rights Amendment (ACT) proposed in 1920s
  did not pass
• Reproductive rights
• Abortion

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Raising Societys Awareness

• Used mass media
• Attacked Playboy
• Started their own magazine
• Protested

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Read Aloud

• Opposing the Womens Movement
• Lasting Effects of the Womens Movement