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Role of Women in 1960s - Coggle Diagram
Role of Women in 1960s
Finance (unequal pay)...
- June 10th, 1963
- Male: female = $1:57cents
Development around education...
- Single-sex schools declined (only 40% @ s-s schools)
- School leaving age was 15 + started at 5
- Girls did cookery, needlework and typing
- Boys did woodwork and metalwork
- Beginning to change that boys were referred to by surnames and girls by first names
- Number of students achieving 5+ GCE's increased
- 'Talk and chalk' education
- Merging of grammar and secondary moderns into comprehensive schools in 1965 (comprehensivisation)
Advertising...
- Women are presented either in housewife role or as a sex object
- e.g. Tide (perfect example of naturalisation of women's housewife role)
Betty Friedan's theory...
- Best-selling book (The Feminine Mystique) helped spark public activism and voiced women's frustration with their limiting roles
- thesis was that women suffered a variety of forms of discrimination but mainly were victims of limiting and false values under which they were encouraged to find fulfillment and identity
Women's rights + liberation...
- 2nd wave of feminism movement (focus on equality + discrimination issues)
- Built on work of 1st wave and work of suffrage
- General feeling of solidarity among women, fighting for equality
- Questioning the validity of patriarchy
- Led by educated, middle-class white women so movement focused on issues affecting white women
- Alienated WOC from central platforms and their issues (forced sterilisation) were not seen as a priority
- The Civil rights movement contributed to progression of women's rights --> CR Act of 1964 (prohibited discrimination in employment on basis of race, sex, religion, skin colour + national origin)
- Sexual liberation was a massive new idea --> taken too far and objectification became a real issue
Increased opportunities for women to have jobs...
- Women working in labour force increased from 45% in 1955 to 51% in 1965
- Opportunity to go to college/university
- Increased number of women as engineers, auto-mechanics, carpenters, lawyers etc.