March 23-27

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Sexism and Feminism

• Rosie the Riveter
  • Represented women working in factories
• Sexism
  • Gender discrimination
  • Mostly against female
• Feminism
  • Women's equality
  • Some few feminism is radical
• Men
  • Can't be sensitive
• Women
  • called weak
  • less pay
• Women History
  • 1700s
    • Believed that women's brains were smaller
    • Implying they were stupid
  • 1800s
    • Unable to vote
    •  Could only own property is single
    • Could not initiate divorce
    • Couldn't make will, sign contracts, or bring a suit in court without husband's permission
    • 1848- Seneca Falls Conference- First "Feminist Rally" 
  • Cult of Domesticity
    • Perfect Women
      • Piety
        • Had to have only real love relations, more religious
      • Purity
        • Had to have sexuall purity or was not considered a woman
      • Domesticity
        • Worked in the home
      • Submissiveness
        • Had to be passive and give in, had to listen to all men
• India
  • Many problem with Rape
  • Gang rape on a bus in India
    • The woman later died of her injuries
    • Rapist said she should have let it happen
    • They say a good woman isn't out that late
    • Says it is more the girls fault than the boys fault in rape
• What Women Wanted
  • Amendment 13
    • Abolition of Slavery
  • Amendment 18
    • Temperance
  • Amendment 19
    • Right to Vote
  • Child Labor Laws
• Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Furious when Congress gave the right to vote to black males
• NAtional American Woman Suffrage Association
  • Created by Anthony and Stanton
• WWI
  • Interrupted the campaign 
  • Proved they could do the same things that men can do
• Jeannette Rankin
  • First Woman in Congress
    • 1916
  • Voted against WWI and WWII
    • Only vote against WWII
• Alice Paul
  • Head of National Women's Party
  • Pushed for Equal Right Amendment
• 1920's
  • Got the right to vote
  • Flapper Girl
    • More comfortable clothing
    • Showed people that they can do the same things as men
  • Go to college more
  • Working more outside the home
• Margaret Sanger
  • Founded Birth Control
    • Could control their own bodies
    • Educated women about existing birth control
• 1928
  • Education
    • 39% of College degrees were given to women
  • Olympics
    • Women were allowed to compete
    • Some argued they would get hurt
• "Pink Collared" Jobs
  • Gave women more jobs
  • Took lower pay
  • Jobs
    • Secretaries
    • Teachers
    • Telephone Operators
    • Nurses
    • Waitresses
    • Beauticians
• Why do women get paid less
  • Maternity leave 
  • Go into lower paying job fields
  • The average woman loses $400,000 over her lifetime due to unequal pay
• Pay Gap
  • Barely budged in the last 10 years
  • Some states are worse than others
  • Worse for women of color
  • Face a pay gap in almost every occupation
  • Pay gap grows with age

Airplane Crash

• Co-pilot did it on purpose
• Killed 150
  • Everyone on board
• Pilot was locked out of cockpit
• Co-pilot was not fit for work
  • received a note from doctor saying so