Monday - We had a group test and we spent the left over class time studying key terms and people for the test tomorrow.
Tuesday - I was sick but I assume they took a test over key terms and people. We started a new unit.
Wednesday - We have a class map quiz on Friday for former Soviet Union states. Our new unit is on sexism and feminism, for women's history month.
Sexism - gender discrimination
Feminism - women's equality
Our project is an Assigned Blog (50 points)
- Choose any woman/event/law in history that has greatly impacted women in the US or around the world
- Research and write a blog entry on the impact they had on women
- Give a good effort
- Two Pictures
- Add sources
- Due next Wednesday
- Topic need be chosen by Friday
- First come first serve
Women
- Billie Jean King
- Marie Stopes
- Mary Quant
- George Sand
- Katherine Hepburn
http://www.emlii.com/9146884/31-Most-Inspiring-Women-Who-Changed-The-World
Thursday - I was sick again. They went over feminism.
Friday - We went over more facts of women.
- Piety - girls are more religious
- Purity - sexual purity
- Domesticity - maintain the home
- Submissiveness - to be passive bystanders
- National American Woman Suffrage Association - it was made to help women get voting rights
- World War 1 interrupted campaign for woman suffrage
- Women took men's jobs in WW1 showing the country that they could do hard work
- Jeannette Rankin
- Worked to win suffrage in Washinton state
- First woman elected into Congress in 1916
- Voted against war
- Alice Paul
- She was hed of the National Women's Party
- Felt that the 19th Amendment wasn't enough
- Pushed for an Equal Rights Amendment to be add
- Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction
- It was first introduced to Congress 1923
- Made all forms of discrimination based on sex illegal
- Passed Congress in 1972
- 35 out of 38 had ratified it
- Roaring 20's
- Decade for women's right
- 19th Amendment
- Flapper girls
- Drink
- Smoke
- Going to college more
- Working more outside the home
- Margaret Sanger
- She founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL)
- Women were then able to control their own bodies
- This movement educated women about exiting birth control methods
- Education
- 1928 women were earning 39% of the college degrees given in the United States
- It had risen from original 19% it was at the beginning of the century
- Today its closer to 60%
- Olympics
- First Olympics women were allowed to compete 1928
- Some argued that it historically inappropriate since women didn't compete in ancint Greek Olympics
- Other siad that physical competition was injurious to women
- "Pink Collared" Jobs
- 1920-1970
- Gave women a taste of the world
- Low paying service occupations
- Made less moeny than men did doing the same jobs
- Example jobs
- Secretaries
- Teachers
- Telephone operators
- Nurses
- Waitress
- Beautician
- For every dollar a man makes a women makes 78 cents
- Why women get paid less than men?
- Maternity leave, stop/pause to have children
- They go into job fields that typically pay less than types of jobs men go into
- Stems from "Pink Collar" Jobs
- Stereotypical job
- Perhaps more aggressive asking for raises (guys)
- Gender discrimination (???)
- The average woman loses more than $400,000 over her lifetime due to unequal pay practices
- What year do you think women will achieve equal pay with men in the US?
- 2058
- The pay gap has barely budged in a decade
- Women in every state experience the pay gap, but some states are worse
- Washington is best at 91%
- Pay gap is worse for women of color
- The pay gap grows with age
- More education is an effective tool for increasing earnings, it is not an effective tool against gender pay
- Pay gap also exists among women without children
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