Women

Question 0

What was the 1960s a decade of?

Answer 0

• protest

Question 1

What was reinforced in the 1950s regarding women’s role in society?

Answer 1

• A women’s place in in the home

- Educating girls was seen as a waste as they would only be in the workforce for a short time.

Question 2

What did women want?

Answer 2

• To have their rights recognized

- liberate them from the limitations of being associated with traditional roles

Question 3

what was the movement called?

Answer 3

the women’s liberation movement

Question 4

What song became a theme for the WLM and who wrote it and in what year?

Answer 4

I an woman
Helen Reddy
1972

Question 5

what was the first wave feminism about?

Answer 5

the right to vote- suffrage

Question 6

what was the issue of the second wave feminism?

Answer 6

the sexual revolution

Question 7

what book inspired women to question their lives

Answer 7

the female eunuch by Germaine Greer

Question 8

what was the issue of the third wave feminism

Answer 8

individuality and power

Question 9

what was the fourth wave feminism about?

Answer 9

sexism and prejudice against women

Question 10

what did women do to advance their liberation in the WLM

Answer 10

protests, bra burning ceremonies and attending conferences

Question 11

when was the first international women’s day

Answer 11

8th march 1972

Question 12

when did the women’s electoral lobby begin

Answer 12

1972

Question 13

what did the WEL

Answer 13

dedicated to ending injustices

Question 14

What happened in 1972

Answer 14

• first international women’s day

- whitlam came into power-support equal pay

Question 15

what were the achievements of the women’s movement

Answer 15

• women were depicted in less stereotypical ways-media
• Ms rather than Mrs
• women were encouraged to pursue their education and career
• introduced health services, childcare, rape facilities

Question 16

What policies did WEL encourage governments to adopt?

Answer 16

• Child care
• Family planning
• Women health
  women’s involvement in life outside the home

Question 17

How did the Whitlam government encourage women liberation?

Answer 17

support equal pay, remove luxury tax of contraception, appoint a women advisor

Question 18

when did international women’s day begin

Answer 18

8th march 1974

Question 19

what is the WEL

Answer 19

Women’s Electoral Lobby

organization ending injustice to women