Summary Women: OCR A-Level History - Civil Rights in the USA ()
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Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1992
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OCR
A clear and concise set of notes for the Women topic in the OCR A-Level History Civil Rights in the USA course. In date order with both positive and negative events, as well as a description of what the event is. Includes; presidential action, laws/acts, government action, key figures, statistics ...
Family size decreasing ‘Rosie the Riveter’ 😊
Comstock Laws (contraception) Post-war – housewife ☹
1918 – 20 states had vote for women Civil Rights Act 1964
Growth of industry – Civil War 😊 Contraceptive Pill 1965 😊
Westward expansion 😊 Griswold v. Connecticut 1965 (married
WW1 – 3 million extra jobs 😊 couples to buy and use contraceptives)
Jane Addams – Hull House New feminism 1960s – sexism
Carrie Chapman Catt – 19th Amendment 1969 – 11 females in congress
‘Separate spheres’ WW2 – 6 million women enter workforce
WCTU (temperance) (unequal pay) 😊☹
NWSA (priority to securing women the 1963 – Equal Pay Act
right to vote) Betty Friedan
AWSA (women’s rights) – Lucy Stone, National Org. for Women (NOW)
later became NAWSA Government largely male dominated ☹
15th Amendment (right to vote for all, no
1970-1992
exclusions on basis of race etc.) – angered
some women as didn’t specify gender Feminist movement become more radical
‘Radicalesbians’ movement – women
1915-1940
could only be successful without men
‘Flappers’ 1973 – Roe v Wade (abortion) 😊
Margaret Sanger – birth control 1972 – Ms Magazine
Shepard Towner Act (ST, funds for infant The Pill – SC 1972 😊
health/edu.) Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) 1972
1920 – 19th Amendment 😊 1990 – 8 states had female governors 😊
Many women did not vote – no 1992 – 19/100 big cities had female
representation ☹ mayors 😊
Only 2 female governors 47% women working 😊
Start of campaign for Equal Rights 1996 – women owned 7.7 million
Amendment businesses 😊
New Deal – Eleanor Roosevelt 😊 ‘glass ceiling’ – equal pay not in all states
End of 1930s – 55 women in government ☹
😊 Limited support for maternity leave ☹
1920s – economic boom, 2 million women Phyllis Schlafly – opposed to ERA
in work 😊 Equal Opp. Act (eliminates all forms of
More women joined unions discrimination against women) 😊
Francis Perkins
Depression – men’s jobs prioritised ☹
Gallup Poll – 4/5
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