Modern Women's Movement by Mary-Kate Estramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na Who are they and what is their goal? en-us 2021-05-17 13:24:48 UTC 2025-11-07 22:32:08 UTC hello@padlet.com Title IX was a law that protects people from getting discriminated against in an educational setting based on their sex. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1531206368 2021-05-17 13:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1531206368 Equal Pay Act allowed women to receive the same wages as men in the workplace. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1531207257 2021-05-17 13:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1531207257 Roe V. Wade was a case that the Supreme Court ruled in the favor that women should have the right to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1531210790 2021-05-17 13:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1531210790 The women's movement strives for legal, political, and social change. Women wanted to end discrimination and violent acts against them and the future generations. It was one of the most influential movements in history and created lots of change. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535454762 2021-05-18 13:14:47 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535454762 Jury Duty Reform Act was founded in 1972 which allowed women to serve on the juries. But were also given the right to opt out if they didn't want to. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535487823 2021-05-18 13:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535487823 In 1979 the Anti-Discrimination Human Rights Act was created which changed the writing of many legislations pieces protecting the rights of women and got rid of offending works. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535492970 2021-05-18 13:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535492970 The changes in legislation caused the Civil Service Act, The Pensions Act, Interpretation Act, and Worker's Compensation Act to be made. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535507348 2021-05-18 13:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535507348 In July of 1980 the women were granted with a major victory in that the passage of the Matrimonial Property Act was ratified when legislation recognized an equal division of property upon separation or divorce. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535514432 2021-05-18 13:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535514432 The women faced many hardships all throughout history until they started fighting back for their rights. Some major issues were pay equality, pension benefits, reproductive rights, sexism and stereotyping based on sex, and women's representation in government. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535535887 2021-05-18 13:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535535887 End sexual discrimination and violence and get equal rights as men. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535567454 2021-05-18 13:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535567454 Women were constantly trying to prove themselves to the men showing how they were able to take on harder tasks than they were given and that doing laundry and making dinner wasn't all they were capable of. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535569852 2021-05-18 13:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535569852 As many women's organizations started to from they started protests, movements, slogans, posters ext. They wanted to show the world that women were so much more than they were given credit for. And they did. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535574556 2021-05-18 13:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1535574556 The phrase was conducted by Betty Friedan to show the assumptions that women should be fulfilled with their housework, marriage, sexual lives and families. It was assumed that they should be satisfied enough to not want to go out and work, get an education or have social/political opinions. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543610582 2021-05-20 13:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543610582 Betty was told in 1957 to collect a survey from her graduating class at Smith College. As a result she found that women overall were unhappy with their lives as housewives. She began writing about "The Feminine Mystique". 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543620322 2021-05-20 13:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543620322 At first she was just surveying suburban housewives to gain research and facts. She was intending to just write an article not a book. But no place would publish her article and she had a lot to say. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543635966 2021-05-20 13:07:08 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543635966 Betty's book was published in 1964 and became a bestseller for nonfiction. She sold over one million copies. The world of women surrounding her was in awe of her great accomplishment and heroic effort to make the rest of the world see the hardships for women and the cruel assumptions. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543641415 2021-05-20 13:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543641415 Emma Willard, Mary Lyon and Catherine Beecher were educators that offered advanced training to women for attended female academies and seminaries. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543732006 2021-05-20 13:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543732006 Thousands of women in the 1830's and 1840's strove to create change. They joined moral reform societies to put an end to licentiousness, seduction and prostitution of themselves. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543765047 2021-05-20 13:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543765047 Women also joined groups to create a safe place for others to come and escape their alcoholic husbands who would abuse them. They created groups to put a stop to the abuse. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543772226 2021-05-20 13:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543772226 Frances Wright, Ernestine Rose and Margaret Fuller all stood up for women's rights and helped others gain the strength to take a stand as well. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543777186 2021-05-20 13:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1543777186 This got attention of both men and women but attracted over 300 women to come join the meeting. The coneventions started becoming annual and the women wrote a "declaration of sentiments" demanding equal rights for themselves. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1547545975 2021-05-21 13:07:31 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1547545975 Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were younger women in abolitionist circle that were learned the political tactics and ideology of human rights which eventually directed them into leading the first Seneca Falls Convention. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1547566955 2021-05-21 13:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1547566955 Custom and laws and also beliefs set men at a higher tier than women and were seen to be superior. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1547604594 2021-05-21 13:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1547604594 Women struggled to gain more rights because the men saw that as a threat. They believed that women posed a threat to their power. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1547609880 2021-05-21 13:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1547609880 Some men and women were also worried that if the concept of "male protection" was broken men and women would have to compete with the men in areas they were not prepared to. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1547637222 2021-05-21 13:31:40 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1547637222 People histated to give women the right to vote because the feared if they allowed it they would all vote for the conservative party. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1547653216 2021-05-21 13:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1547653216 This organization was founded in 1966 and promoted equal rights for women. It helped them take a stand fastly became the largest feminist group in the U.S. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1553572728 2021-05-24 13:16:52 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1553572728 Betty Friedan was one of the feminist leaders that help start the organization. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1553595875 2021-05-24 13:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1553595875 Women gained the right to vote in uneven stages because people's reasons for granting suffrage varied tremendously. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1553623289 2021-05-24 13:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1553623289 By the turn of the twentieth century the movement had become international and was well known everywhere. Ideas and tactics in one country were then used as examples in a different one. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1553629756 2021-05-24 13:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1553629756 Women wanted freedom to use their voices and stand up for what they believe for themselves and the world. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1553637219 2021-05-24 13:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1553637219 The movement started out small by a handful of strong minded feminists but eventually they gained hundreds of thousands of supporters and in turn transformed into an international movement. 22mestramonte https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1553647986 2021-05-24 13:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/22mestramonte/tasks6a7vhrn80na/wish/1553647986 Higgins, Jenny. 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