16. Did women achieve real position of authority?

Question 1

federal agencies?

Answer 1

largley run by men

Question 2

New Deal legislation

Answer 2

discriminated against mothers and married women to boost employment for men.
(social rights not achieved)

Question 3

AA women suffered from racial discrimination in

Answer 3

social security in the South

Question 4

New Deal legislation made assumption that

Answer 4

men worked and women looked after them in the home = built in inequality in pensions

Question 5

no attempt in legisation to secure

Answer 5

equal pay

Question 6

huge gap between implications of equality in 19th Amendment

Answer 6

and actual equality achieved

Question 7

National Womens Party

Answer 7

had limited influecne
more radical
founded in 1916 by 2 activists from NAWSA, ALice Paul and Lucy Burns
aimed at a suffragette-style campaign
led protests
silent protest outside white house
minor acts of law breaking with arrests and hunger strikes
demanded but failed to achieve ERA in 1920s