The changing position of women 1917-80

Question 1

when was the 19th amendment passed?

Answer 1

august 1920

Question 2

what was the 19th amendment and who faced the limitations of it?

Answer 2

allowed women to vote on the same grounds as men however poorer and black women didn’t usually vote

Question 3

what did the 1920 League of women voters do?

Answer 3

encouraged mainly white women to vote

Question 4

what was the impact of WW1 on women employment?

Answer 4

many women worked however they were fired to give jobs to returning soldiers

Question 5

what was the view of women after the war?

Answer 5

they were expected to return to traditional roles and married women were banned from certain jobs

Question 6

when was the Women’s Bureau of Labour set up?

Answer 6

1920

Question 7

who were the Flappers?

Answer 7

young women who cut their hair, smoke and drank in public , and had sexual freedom

Question 8

what did the Flappers achieve?

Answer 8

they shifted public perceptions of women

Question 9

how did the Great Depression impact women?

Answer 9

restricting hours often forced the poorest women to break rules/lose their jobs and the new deal relief programs were mainly focused on women in industrial work

Question 10

what did the 1932 Women Bureau of Labour report?

Answer 10

97% of women workers in meat packing were the only wage earner in their families

Question 11

when did Eleanor Roosevelt set up Camp Tera and what was the purpose of it?

Answer 11

1933 to meet the needs of unemployed women

Question 12

how many people did camps take in by 1936?

Answer 12

36 camps Tok on 5000 women

Question 13

what did Fannie Peck do?

Answer 13

in 1930 set up a series of Housewives leagues to encourage women to shop in black ran stores and organise local help for those in need

Question 14

how much did white woman earn in comparison to black women ?

Answer 14

white woman earned 63 cents and black women earned 23 cents

Question 15

when and what was the Selective training and Service act?

Answer 15

1940, prepared to draft men into the military and train women to fill their places

Question 16

when and what was the Lanham act’s childcare provision

Answer 16

1941, was extended to allow more married women to work

Question 17

how many women were working in agriculture by 1943?

Answer 17

about 3 million

Question 17

how much did married women working rise during WW2

Answer 17

rose from 12% to 23%

Question 18

how were black women in nursing courses impacted during WW2?

Answer 18

rose to 2600 by 1945

Question 19

what happened to working women after WW2?

Answer 19

many were fired to give their job to returning men

Question 20

how did married women between 45-54 working get impacted by WW2?

Answer 20

rose from 10.1% In 1940 to 22.2% in 1950

Question 21

how was women employment after WW2?

Answer 21

widowed/separated women still worked, black and coloured women still worked and attitudes towards married woman changed however they were still paid less than men

Question 22

how many people moved to suburbs by 1960/

Answer 22

19 million

Question 23

what happened to working women living in suburbs?

Answer 23

they were often excluded from groups

Question 24

when were shopping malls built

Answer 24

1954

Question 25

when was the Women’s liberation movement?

Answer 25

1961-80

Question 26

National Organisation of women

Answer 26

set up in 1966 and aimed to work within the political system to get better equality and enforcement of the equal pay and civil rights act

Question 27

when was the equal pay act passed

Answer 27

1963

Question 28

what did the commission President Kennedy set up find out?

Answer 28

girls weren’t encouraged to think about careers, equal pay act needed enforcing, min wage didn’t apply to low paid work, non-white women were discriminated against

Question 29

1958 education act

Answer 29

schools should have counsellors to work with students

Question 30

issue with the 1958 education act

Answer 30

few were trained and gave poor advice

Question 31

who were the young radicals?

Answer 31

under 30, white middle class, worked with black civil right groups

Question 32

what did the 1964 civil rights act include

Answer 32

sexual and racial equality

Question 33

what did the young radicals want?

Answer 33

equal rights, opportunities and pay, right to decide about own body (contraception/abortion/sexual freedom)

Question 34

what happened on the 26th August 1970?

Answer 34

a strike with many feminist groups demanding for for equal opportunities in jobs and education, free childcare and free abortion on demand

Question 35

what happened to NOW membership?

Answer 35

increased from 1000 in 1967 to 20,000 in 1974

Question 36

what happened to the support of the women’s liberation movement?

Answer 36

lost some support as not all woman supported the use of contraception and abortion

Question 37

what was the 1979 UN policy the USA didn’t sign up to?

Answer 37

introducing non-discrimination of women in all aspects of life

Question 38

1972 Einstadt v Baird

Answer 38

allowed access to contraception to unmarried and married women

Question 39

1973 Roe v Wade

Answer 39

abortion was federally legalised with rules on timing/health of mother

Question 40

what did president Johnson do?

Answer 40

extended his executive order which improved employment conditions for those discriminated due to race, creed, colour and sexual

Question 41

what limitations did women still face?

Answer 41

Employers still found acceptable reasons to discriminate against women and Non-white women felt excluded as they all didn’t want/need the same things

Question 42

what was the % of working women in the roaring twenties

Answer 42

rose from 8.3% to 9.5%