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Women Factors Essay (Economic / Education (Positives (War:
Job increases…
Women Factors Essay
Economic / Education
Positives
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Education:
- Women allowed in education. 1/2 graduated from high school in 1900
Jobs:
- White collar jobs opened up and increased female employment. 80% of female employment was as secretary/clerk
Negatives
War:
- Women accepted return to work once veterans came home
Education:
- A large amount of women went to college to look for husbands
Jobs:
- Lacked pathways, pay was less (20% less for female teachers)
- Black women mainly worked domestically
Activism of Women
Positives
Margaret Sanger:
- Wanted legal abortion, set up ABCL (American Birth Control League)
- 1923 = first clinic
- 1960 = pill
Flappers:
- Modern (1920s), older generation against it
Prohibition:
- WCTU pushed for prohibition, able to force some states into allowing it.
- ASL (Anti-Saloon League) also helped
Betty Friedan:
- Wrote 'The Feminine Mystique', highlighting that women weren't making progress because of the apparent need of a feminine attitude.
- Leader of NOW (National Organization for Women). Wanted to end discrimination completely after the 1964 Civil Rights Act banned it.
Negatives
Margaret Sanger:
- Back-street abortions, Christians, poor women
Prohibition:
- Focus on family, differences between WCTU and the WONPR (Women's Organisation for National Prohibition Reform) led to no focus on equal rights amendment
NAWSA (National American Women's Suffrage Association) 1900:
CUWS (Congressional Unions for Women's Suffrage) 1913:
- Radical, caused division between NAWSA
Federal Government
Positives
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Roe v Wade 1973:
- Helped women have abortions. However had to ensure that the woman's life would not be in danger
Griswold v Connecticut 1965:
- Made contraception legal, outlawed laws preventing this as it was unconstitutional due to the 14th Amendment
1938 Comstock Laws:
- 1873 Comstock Laws reversed
Negatives
19th Amendment:
- 20 states by 1918 already had the vote
1935 Social Security Act:
- Only helped poor families, not women
1938 Comstock Laws:
- Individual states who disagreed with the overturning of the laws kept their own laws