Historical Content by Micah Bibbens https://padlet.com/micahbibbens1/bx2tuqt7cltbw41f Gender Roles in the 70s en-us 2020-09-22 21:58:14 UTC 2020-09-22 22:50:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Women faced a lot because of their gender micahbibbens1 https://padlet.com/micahbibbens1/bx2tuqt7cltbw41f/wish/770198087 Among these battles were challenging sexism, fighting for free access to legal abortion, and analyzing and overcoming oppression. (exploring the 70s)

https://sites.google.com/site/exploringtheseventies/home/politics/the-role-of-women-in-the-70-s]]> 2020-09-22 22:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/micahbibbens1/bx2tuqt7cltbw41f/wish/770198087 Women were expected to stay at home, but some broke out of that comfort zone. micahbibbens1 https://padlet.com/micahbibbens1/bx2tuqt7cltbw41f/wish/770224464 JO: Did most of your female friends at that time also have professional careers?

AO: They were beginning to. I would say when I came out of high school most of my friends married young and had children very soon after they were married, and most of them were stay-at-home moms. (Gender, Spring 2017)

Within this it shows that some women were beginning to come to grasp with working, but most women got married, had children, and stayed home.



]]> 2020-09-22 22:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/micahbibbens1/bx2tuqt7cltbw41f/wish/770224464 Housewife common micahbibbens1 https://padlet.com/micahbibbens1/bx2tuqt7cltbw41f/wish/770228393 AO: I think it was a, yes, I definitely think that that was typical. I, at that point, really didn’t know many women who were working. Most of them were stay-at-home moms unless, from an economic standpoint, they needed to go out to work. I did have an aunt who went out of the house to work, but I think though that was after her children were older.

It was so common for women to work at home. To the point that it was normal and if you had a job, it seemed odd. (Gender, Spring 2017)

https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/hist150/2017/03/26/feminism-and-changing-gender-roles-in-the-1960s-and-1970s/]]> 2020-09-22 22:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/micahbibbens1/bx2tuqt7cltbw41f/wish/770228393 Women started to breakout of the norm micahbibbens1 https://padlet.com/micahbibbens1/bx2tuqt7cltbw41f/wish/770244491 "They want equal pay for equal work, and a chance at jobs traditionally reserved for men only. They seek nationwide abortion reform -- ideally, free abortions on demand. They desire round-the-clock, state-supported child-care centers in order to cut the apron strings that confine mothers to unpaid domestic servitude at home. (Ryan Bergeron, CNN)

https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/22/living/the-seventies-feminism-womens-lib/index.html]]> 2020-09-22 22:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/micahbibbens1/bx2tuqt7cltbw41f/wish/770244491 Women Roles micahbibbens1 https://padlet.com/micahbibbens1/bx2tuqt7cltbw41f/wish/770247982 2020-09-22 22:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/micahbibbens1/bx2tuqt7cltbw41f/wish/770247982