Women’s MovementSarah Criscuolo and Matt McDonald

First Phase: 1830s-1950s

Focused on:• Education• Equality of work• Political equality • Inadequacies of Marxism • Suffrage

Second Wave: 1960s-1990s

Focused on: • Equal pay• Wages for housework• Control over reproduction (abortion)• Opposition to domestic violence • Radical feminism

Third Wave

Focused on:• Postmodernism• Deconstruction • Feminist postmodernism• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIhKAQX5izw

Betty Friedan

• Freelancer, suburban housewife, mother of 3.• Published articles for various women’s magazines.• Author of The Feminine Mystique• 1963• Talked about the powerful effects of society’s restrictive

role for women

NOW

• National Organization for Women• Founded in 1966.• Aims to promote full equality for women and men in all

aspects of society. • Formed in response to EEOC’s reluctance to enforce civil

rights legislation that would insure women protection from employment discrimination

• Played significant role in convincing congress to pass ERA in 1972.

Why did it start?

• 1840s- American women began speaking, writing, and organizing about inequality of women in America.

• 1919- league of American women voters formed to educate about the election process.

What tactics did this movement use?

• Freidan’s book The Feminine Mystique sparked the movement

• ‘Consciousness raising groups’ helped spread awareness of the movement

• Feminist protests i.e. beauty pageants

The movement’s impact on present day women’s rights

• Women are treated more equal in the workforce and gender roles

• Women can vote• Women can hold an office position

Citations

• http://www.sewallbelmont.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/1848-2009_timeline.png

• http://imagining-other.net/sm6womensmovement.htm• http://

womenshistory.about.com/od/feminism/tp/1960s_feminist_activities.htm

• Collins, Gail. America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines. 2003. Print.

• Schmittoth, Linda. Women's Almanac. Society ed. Vol. 2. UXL, 1997. Print.

• Jenkins McElroy, Lorie. Women's Voices. Property, Equality, Reproduction ed. Vol. 2. UXL, 1997. Print.