Monday - Finished Group Test! Study over key terms test on
(All study items above.)
Tuesday - Gone for State Mock Trial!!
Wednesday - Gone for State Mock Trial!!
Started the Unit of Sexism and Feminism
- Rosie the Riveter
- Assigned Blog
- Choose any women/event/law that history has greatly impacted women in the US or around the world
- Research and write a blog on the impact of (4-5 paragraphs)
- goof effort, include two pictures, and be sure to add your sources
- Due next Wednesday (topic chosen by Friday
Thursday - Class Quiz over old Soviet States.
Tomorrow morning will be the group test for key terms and people at 7:45 a.m.
The airplane that crashed in the French Alps was deliberately planned and the co-pilot purposely crashed the plane. The pilot went to the bathroom and came back to find the door locked and the co-pilot took control and crashed the plane. We can hear the pilot breathing in the cabin to know that he had the controls.
Is softball sexist? Yes, it was developed so women couldn't play baseball. The ball is smaller, the field is smaller, and made it much slower to keep them out of baseball.
Emma Watson - He For She. They want to end gender inequality. "If not me ... Who? If not now ... When?"
- In the 1700s, it was believed that women has a smaller brain than men's
- Therefore inferior
- 1800s
- Unable to vote
- Legal status of a minor
- Single - could own property
- Married - husband owned property
- Husband could only divorce
- Couldn't make wills, sign contracts, or bring a suit in a case without her husband's approval
- Cult of Domesticity
- developed in the 1800s
- ideal of womanhood has 4 characteristics:
- Piety - natural inclination for religion
- thought as the "Eve" working with God to bring the world out of sin through her suffering, through her pure and passionless love
- thought to have been perfect or have to be perfect
- Purity - sexual purity
- a woman was no woman but rather a lower form of being
- highly revered
- Domesticity - woman's place is in her home
- taking care of the kids
- cooking
- cleaning
- maintaining the home
- Submissiveness -
- men were supposed to be religious, although not generally
- men were supposed to be pure, although was not expected
- men were never to be submissive
- men were to be movers, the actors or doers in life
- women were to be passive bystanders, submitting to fate, to duty, to God, and to men
- Piety - natural inclination for religion
- India still has major issues with gender roles
- 1848 - Seneca Falls Declaration: plea for the end of discrimination against women in all spheres of society, including the right to vote
- Pushed for 4 things:
- Right to vote (19th Amendment - 1920)
- Abolition of Slavery (13th Amendment - 1865)
- Temperance (18th amendment 1920)
- Child Labor Laws
- Pushed for 4 things:
- Susan B. Anthony - Pushed suffrage rights. furious that Congress has given the vote to black men but denied it to women.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Pushed suffrage rights. furious that Congress has given the vote to black men but denied it to women.
Friday - News on the plane crash in the Alps, the co-pilot has thrown away a note from a doctor deeming him unfit to fly (most likely on mental health).
Finish class quiz over Old Soviet States (10/10). Started new map over Southeast Asia.
My topic is over Eleanor Roosevelt.
WW1 happened and interrupted the suffrage movement. But allowed the women to show that they can do just as much as men while working in factories.
Jeannette Rankin - first woman elected congress in 1916. She voted against war in WW1 and WW2 (the only vote). Was a pacifist.
August 20th, 1920, 19th amendment was ratified.
Alice Paul - head of the National Women's Party. Felt that the 19th amendment wasn't enough and pushed for an Equal Rights Amendment to be added to the constitution (still is in congress). The Equal Rights Amendment - first introduced in 1923. Made all form of discrimination based on sex illegal. Passed Congress in 1972, 35 out of the required 38 had ratified in 1979 -- but didn't have enough votes so still hasn't ratified.
The Roaring 1920s - 19th amendment, flapper girls (shorter skirts, high heels, and more outgoing girls), going to college, working more outside the home.
Margaret Sanger - In 1921, she founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL) -- Known as Planned Parenthood.
Women were then able to control their own bodies. This movement educated women about existing birth control methods.
Education by 1928, 39% of the college degrees given in the US to women. It has risen from the original 19% it was at the beginning of the century.
1928 Olympics. First time women were allowed in the Olympics. There were very many arguments: Some argued that it inappropriate since they didn't participate in the ancient Greece Olympics, and that it was too rigorous and injurious to women.
"Pink Collared" - Jobs in 1920s-1970s. Gave women a taste of the work world. Low paying service occupations. Made less money than men did doing the same jobs: secretaries, teachers, nurses, telephone operators, waitresses.
Why paid less? -- Maturity leave, go into job fields that are generally pay less than men (Pink Collared and stereotypes), men are more aggressive asking for raises (?), gender discrimination or unexplained, the average women loses more than 400,000 dollars over her lifetime to do unequal pay prices.
Women will achieve equal pay in 2058.
The pay gap has barely budged in a decade . Women in every state experience the pay gap, but some states are worse than others. (the best is in D.C. where women are paid 91 cents for every dollar and worst in Louisiana at 66 cents to a dollar). The pay gap is worse for black women -- and Hispanic at 55 cents per every dollar. Women face a pay gap in nearly every occupation. The pay gap grows with age, mostly after age 35. While more education is effective, it doesn't really effect the pay gap. The pay gap also exists around women with and without children.
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