March 23rd- 27th

Monday- Gone for USD Track Meet

Tuesday- Test over Political Systems and Ukraine

Wednesday- 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- 

  • There was a major plane crashed that crashed by a co- pilot and killed 150 people in the French Alps 

Women's Rights

  • Softball can be considered sexist because it's easier and a shorter/ smaller game
  • Emma Watson's speech
    • He for She campaign
    • "If not me, Who? If not now, When?"
    • Guys need to be sensitive to be like a girl (be tough)
    • Men get paid more than women
    • A feminist is someone who supports women's rights (not a man hater)
  •  Roles of women in history are to have kids, cook, and do whatever the husband wants them to
  • Being a Queen- power
  • During Revolutionary War (1700's) people thought that women's heads were smaller than men's head
  • Early 1800's women couldn't vote, were like a minor
    • Single owned property- married under husband
  • Couldn't divorce unless husband wanted to
  • Couldn't make wills, or bring suit in court without her husband's permission

Cult of Domesticity

  • Developed throughout 1800's
  • The ideal of womanhood had four characteristics
    • 1. Piety- tied to religions (the new "Eve"), all pure thoughts like loving everyone
    • 2. Purity- without sexual purity, women was not women, but more a prostitute (lower than a human being
    • 3. Domesticity- women's place was in the home (cleaning, cooking, and only worry about being perfect)
    • Submissiveness- Women were to give in, Men were to be mover, and does--the actors in life, and women were to be the bystanders/ not take control

Push for Equality

  • 1848- Plea for the end of discrimination  against women in all spheres of society, including the right to vote
    • Abolition of slavery (13th Amendment)
    • Temperance (11th Amendment)
    • Women's suffrage (19th Amendment)
    • Child Labor Laws
  • Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton- were involve in Fall conference
    • Were furious when blacks had the right to vote when they've been "normal" all their life and they still can't vote

Friday- Continued Women's Rights Power point

  • WWI was the time that women started to work in factors because all the men were gone
  • Jeannette Rankin
    • Worked to win suffrage movement
    • Elected the first women in Congress in 1916
    • Voted against War
  • Alice Paul
    • Head of National Women's Party
    • Felt that 19th Amendment was not enough
    • Pushed for an Equal Rights Amendment to be added to the Constitution
  • Equal Rights Amendment
    • Introduced in  Congress in 1923
    • Made all forms of discrimination based on sex illegal
    • Passed Congress in 1972
    • 35 out of 38 voted for it
  • The roaring 20's
    • Flapper girls
    • Going to collage more
    • Working more outside the home
  • Margaret Sanger
    • 1921- founded the American Birth Control League (Planned Parenthood)
    • Women were able to control their own bodies
    • Movement educated women about existing birth control methods
  • Education
    • In 1928, women were earning 39% of the college degrees given in the U.S. (originally 19%)
  • 1928 Olympics
    • First time women were able to participate
    • Some argued this is was historically inappropriate since women did not compete in ancient Greek Olympics
    • Women might get heart
  • "Pink Collared" Jobs- 1920's-1970's
    • Low paying occupations
    • Made less money doing the same jobs
      • Secretaries
      • Teachers
      • Telephone operators
      • Nurses
  • Why Women may be paid less than Men
    • They stop/ pause career to have children more so then men
    • They go into fields that typically pay less than types of jobs men go into
    • Why?
      • More aggressive asking for raises? (Men)
      • Gender discrimination
      • Average women loses more than $400,00 over her lifetime due to unequal pay practices
  • 2058 Women may achieve equal pay with men in the United States
  • The pay gap has barely budged in a decade-(Women in every state experience the pay gap, but some states are worse than others-) worse for women of color
  • Pay gap grows over age- face pay gap in nearly every occupation
  • Education still doesn't help pay gap even though they graduate 

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