Gender Roles DQ

• What specific experiences have you had that caused you to think that you were treated in a particular way because of your gender?

• Discuss with a partner

The Feminist Movement• 19th Amendment (1920)granted voting to

women• Feminismbelief men and women should be

treated the same• 1963Equal Pay Act outlawed paying men

more than women for the same job.– Practice still occurred

• Title VII of CRA (64’)no job discrimination based on gender, race, etc

Audio Analysis

“What do you consider to be the intent of the “I Am Woman” song?

December 1972”I Am Woman” hit #1 on the Billboard charts

Write 1-2 sentences explaining the popularity of this song.

Betty Friedan• The Feminine Mystique

(63’)explained the discrimination felt by women

• Organized National Organization for Women (NOW)– Demanded better educational

opportunities– Equal pay for equal work– Stop the exclusion of women from

certain professions and politics– Push for the ERA– Gloria Steinemleading figure of NOW

Women’s Issues

Equal Rights Amendment• Intent • Opposition

Roe v. Wade• Intent • Opposition

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q5AgCzPIuA

Equal Rights Amendment

• An amendment to guarantee gender equality under the law

• Phyllis Schlafly opposed ERAbelieved it would make women fight in the military, end sex-segregated bathrooms, and hurt the family

• ERA failed to pass Congress due to fear of embracing untraditional roles of females.

Successes• Title VII of CRA of 1964—outlawed

discrimination on sex• Title IX of Higher Education Act of 1972—

banned discrimination in education– equal money for girls’ programs as boys’ programs

• By 1990, 55% of colleges were made up of women