Monday - We are having a class quiz tomorrow and went over women's right and feminism powerpoint again.
- Median pay for a man in Iowa is $45,930
- Median pay for women in Iowas is $35,602
- Iowa 78% ratio for women
- Iowa is number 33 for median annual earnings
- White women 78% of earning, white women do worse than other races
- The Depression
- FDR attempted to equalize pay for women and men but could not get enforcement
- Eleanor Roosevelt becomes role model
- Frances Perkins becomes the first female cabinet member
- Women in War
- Rosie the Riveter
- Women in the military
- Most women still did traditional jobs
- Some worked in factories
- After War
- Women were expected to go back home
- Mothers
- Homemakers
- Supporting their men
- Enjoying their new appliances
- Young brides
- Second Wave of Feminism
- Post war message was that truly feminine women didn't want careers, higher education, political rights
- 60% of women dropped out of college to marry
- Fewer and fewer women entered professional work
- 1960
- many women found that their lives were at odds with the images of women that were presented in media
- the "trapped housewife" was discovered, stuck in the house
- Some argued that underemployed women were a wasted resource
- Betty Friedan
- Wrote the book Feminine Mystique (1963)
- Her book she depicted the roles of women in industrial societies
- focused most of her attention on housewife role of women
- Argued that women did not have to give up their families; they could do more, have a choice, a career
- Equal pay act
- It is the firs federal law prohibiting sexual discrimination
- In 1963 the average women's worker was equivalent to 58.9% of average male workers
- It abolished wage differences based on sex
- Civil Rights Act
- Passed in 1964
- It banned discrimination on basis of color, race, national origin, religion, or sex
- 1965
- President Lyndon B. Jonson passed executive order 11246
- It prohibited bias against women in hiring federal jobs
Tuesday - Was at IJC, we got 2nd place. The class took the Southeast Asian map class quiz today. They discussed sexism and feminism again.
Wednesday - I was sick today. But the class reviewed all the maps of Asia today with a focus on the Australian/New Zealand map. The overall test will be next week. Started women's discussion and will continue it tomorrow.
Thursday - We continued our blog discussion.
Friday - No School!!!
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