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WST 3015 Final Wendland Questions
and Answers
Briefly describe what happened to Kathrine Switzer when she ran the 1967 Boston
Marathon. Give enough detail to demonstrate that you watched the documentary.
✓ ~~~ Katherine Switzer was a distance runner who attended Syracuse University in 1967.
Her school did not have a women's track team so she begun training with the men's team
under trainer Barney Briggs. She decided with Barney that she was going to run in the
Boston Marathon and this was taboo because for 70 years women had been excluded
from the marathon. She registered for the race as K. Switzer to keep herself unknown as
a woman runner. While competing in the race, the race director jumped off the press bus
and tried to grab her out of the race. Her boyfriend defended her and pushed him away.
She was determined to finish this race for all women out there in the world, and she
completed the race in 4 hours. People asked her why she did this and she answered "I
just want to run!". She ultimately changed women's sports.
Lesbians and women of color were heartily welcomed in the early years of the
feminist movement and easily saw a place for themselves in the movement.
✓ ~~~ False
Among other things, Betty Friedan's THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE argued that women
(and therefore men and society at large) suffered if women were confined solely to
the role of housewife/mother instead of having other options.
✓ ~~~ True
In the 1950s and into the 1960s, it was both legal and common to limit jobs to either
women or men. For example, job ads in newspapers were divided into jobs for
women and jobs for men. And most jobs for women were low-level with little chance
for advancement or promotion -- e.g., secretarial.
✓ ~~~ True
,Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique"
✓ ~~~ revealed and explored the dissatisfaction that many (largely white, largely educated)
women felt at being confined to the role of housewife
According to Aileen Hernandez, the only woman on the Equal Opportunity
Employment Commission at the time, the first gender-based case under Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act dealt with what industry/job? Briefly describe the issue brought to
the EOEC. What was the outcome -- i.e., did the EOEC take action or not? (1 point
for each element of this question.)
✓ ~~~ The first gender-based case under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act dealt with what
the Airline industry, specifically the job of being a stewardess. Stewardesses were told to
be cleanly dressed, wear full hair and make-up, and be in outstanding shape. They were
completely objectified in this job position and they were only valuable when they were still
"young". Once these women reached 32 years old, they were fired. Stewardesses
marched to Washington to file a claim with the EOEC on this age discrimination. The
EOEC ultimately did nothing and this made Aileen Hernandez quit her job with the EOEC.
Lorena Weeks applied for a position as "switch-man" with Southern Bell, a job for
which she was the best qualified according to Southern Bell's own seniority rules.
Her application was turned down and she was told that the job was reserved for men
only in part because "men are the breadwinners" and because the job required lifting
items that weighed as much as 30 pounds (a weight considered too heavy for
women to lift). Lorena wanted this job because...
✓ ~~~ AOTA
-she needed and wanted the increased income to support herself
-she knew she was qualified for it
-she thought it would be fun and she knew she could do it
-she knew that if a woman could lift a baby a woman could lift the required 30
pounds with little problem
,-she hated men and wanted to take jobs away from men
All feminism is the same and all feminists think the same way.
✓ ~~~ False
Without referring to any person or event already covered in this quiz, choose a
segment (person, event, concept) of the MAKERS documentary that really spoke to
you. Describe that segment (sufficiently so that we know you actually watched the
documentary) and then describe why this segment was a learning experience for
you. (The answer "This was a learning experience because I didn't know this before I
took this class" will earn ZERO points. Your answer should connect to course
concepts and issues.)
✓ ~~~ I enjoyed the segment of Part 1 of MAKERS Awakening that talked about the
Ladies Home Journal sit-in. This magazine was known to publish belittling advertisements
towards women and degrading articles. These women had enough of this and took action.
They discretely piled into magazine director John Mack Carter's office in groups of three
to not raise suspicion that they were up to something. Once they were all in his office,
they refused to leave until they were given a whole issue in the magazine to write
whatever they please. After 11 hours, an exhausted John Mack Carter agreed to give the
ladies 8 pages in the issue to write about anything they want. This may have been a small
detail/victory in the documentary but it spoke volumes to me. I know it probably took a lot
of time and energy to argue with this man and to stay put for 11 hours until a compromise
was reached that satisfied the group. I respect that they took to a large magazine like this
and demanded to be published and get their voice/words out there for the public to see
and understand. This was a great example of determination on the part of these women
and it was very inspiring to learn about for me as a young woman.
Gloria Steinem took a leading role at NOW when Betty Friedan was no longer able to
bridge rifts in the movement and, according to most, transformed the women's
movement because
✓ ~~~ AOTA
-She had advanced media skills and was able to speak well on talk shows and at
public appearances.
, -Her own journey to feminism had taken years and hence she wasn't foreign to the
issues that many women faced
-Even as an educated white woman she had a sense of the diversity of women and
appealed to that in ways that earlier feminist leaders had not done at all or to the
same extent
Briefly describe Title IX. How did it benefit female athletes? How has it been
beneficial to both men and women's educational opportunities?
✓ ~~~ Title IX compelled universities and college that received federal grants to offer
women equal opportunities to men, most notably in their sports programs. Title IX
benefited female athletes because it caused most universities to vastly expand their
intercollegiate sports programs for women if they wished to continue receiving federal
funds. Title IX has been beneficial to both men and women because both groups can
coexist, compete, and learn from each other in the college setting and have equal
opportunities to one another.
"The Battle of the Sexes" explored in "MAKERS Part II - Changing the World"
referred to:
✓ ~~~ Billie Jean King's tennis match against Bobby Riggs in which female King faced the
male Riggs in what was read not just as a tennis match but as a battle to show that
women could be every bit as athletically strong as men could be
Sherri Finkbine was a TV personality who's experience made headlines. How was
her case a catalyst for social change?
✓ ~~~ Her legal abortion in Europe created a conversation around the necessity of safe
and legal abortions in the United States
Roe V. Wade...
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