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Women
Gilded Era
3 ways women became involved in the social sphere: prohibition, religion, slavery
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WCTU: 1880 - had 27,000 members (national)
Barriers to women's suffrage: men, catholic, south
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10s & 20s
The flapper movement gave women more freedom socially eg drinking and smoking shattering stereotypes of being a mother
Membership of the wctu was 800,000
In 20 states, widows with school-aged children could vote
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30s & 40s
NYA - 743,000 in total
WPA - 409,954 (1938)
Progress in the New Deal:
- females appointed to cabinet,
- NYA,
- WPA
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6 million in the workforce, but in 1946 2 million lost their jobs as men returned
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100,000 women served in the armed forces
37,000 women were killed in accidents in ammunition factories
Why the New Deal failed:
- ran by men,
- aimed to men,
- no attempt to secure equal wages
50s & 60s & 70s & 80s
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NOW - National Organisation for Women, across America and campaigns for women's rights, meets every year. (60s)
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Betty Friedan wrote “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963, which encouraged women to move away from their stereotypes and go into the field they desired.
Kennedy produced the report on American women(1963), helped by Eleanor Roosevelt.
In 1956, a woman is earning 63% of what a man earns
In 1973, a woman is earning 57% of what a man earns
No presidential candidate for either democrats or republicans until 1984. In 1984, the democrats put forward Geraldine Ferraro as Vice President, but she lost.
1981, first female ambassador to the United Nations (Jeanne Fitzpatrick).