Women (everything) Flashcards
14th amendment
Date: 1866
Event: equality of citizenship not extended to women
Impact:
NSWA, AWSA and KOL
The National Woman Suffrage Association
American women sufferafe asociation
Kights of labour
Date: 1869
Event:
- NSWA, federal legislation, white only franchise, equal pay
- AWSA state franchise and all women franchise
Impact:
15th amendment passed
Date: 1870
Event:
- established federal and state government could not withhold the right to vote on the grounds of race
- female suffrage denied
Impact:
WCTU and the comstock act
womens christian temperence movement
Date: 1873
Event:
150,000 members 1895
Impact:
Minor v Happersett
Date: 1875
Event: state could enfranchise women
Impact:
AFL
Date: 1886
Event: women effectivly excluded
Impact:
Hull house
Date: 1889
Event: 50 settlement houses 1895
Impact:
NAWSA
Date: 1890
Event: 50,000 members 1910, 300,000 members 1918 excluded almost all WOC
Impact: National American Woman Suffrage Association
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1896: Utah grants suffrage; NACW
1899: NCL: working conditions, pay
c1900: 2% female workforce unionised, 950,000 white collar workers, 8.6m female workforce (2.6m 1880)
1903: WTUL
Womens trade union league
1908: Muller v Oregon (constitutionality of reduced work hours for women)
1909: Uprising of 20,000 and ILGWU strike
Margret Sanger
1910
1911: National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage
1913: CUWS and direct action to achieve suffrage (constitutional amendment)
1914: WWI: NAWSA suspends campaigns
1916: NWP (formerly the CUWS)
1919: 19th Amendment (10 states granted suffrage by 1910, 20 by 1918)
1923: NWP and ERA campaign
1933: NRA and CCC, 146 female members of state legislatures
1935: Wagner Act, SSA and WPA
1938: FSLA
c1940: 13m employed (10m 1930), 35% female workforce married (29% 1930)
1941-45: WWII: 23% female workforce unionised (11% 1940), 6m join workforce
1950s: ‘cult of womanhood’,
conformity, ‘double burden’
1956: female wages 63% of men’s
1963: Friedan’s Feminine Mystique, Equal Pay Act
1964: Civil Rights Act
1966: NOW and the Women’s Liberation Movement
1967: Weeks v Southern Bell, New York Radical Women, Executive Order 11375
1968: 65% girls aspired to be housewives
1969: NYRW, ‘consciousness raising’, Miss World demonstration
1970s: Nixon’s ‘silent majority’, the New Right and anti-feminist backlash
1970: NOW ERA campaign, women 43% of workforce, 12 female House of Representatives, Millett’s Sexual Politics and unequal power relationships
1971: Reed v Reed (discrimination based on sex unconstitutional under 14th Amendment)
1972: ERA passed by Congress and sent to states for ratification (ratified by 22), Equal Opportunity Act, Stop ERA campaign, 33% men supported gender equality, Shirley Chisholm campaign for presidential nomination
1973: Roe v Wade, female wages 57% of men’s
1976: Hyde Amendment
1977: National Women’s Conference (Houston) focused on pay and work discrimination
1978: 25% girls aspired to be housewives
1982: ERA not ratified by required 35 (ratified by 31)
1989: 73% married women with children employed
1990: 40% men supported gender equality
1992: 47 female House of Representatives, 19 out of 100 large cities had female mayor
Anita Hill case
1991
Ida B. Wells
Gloria Steinman
Rosa Parks
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