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The “F-word”The “F-word”

FEMINISMFEMINISM

What is feminism?

THE FIRST WAVETHE FIRST WAVE

Ownership

VotingRights

PropertyRights

Focus

THE FIRST WOMEN’S RIGHTS THE FIRST WOMEN’S RIGHTS CONVENTIONCONVENTION

• Seneca FallsSeneca Falls• July 1848July 1848• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and

Lucretia Mott spearheaded Lucretia Mott spearheaded the first women's rights the first women's rights convention in American convention in American history.  Although the history.  Although the Convention was hastily Convention was hastily organized and hardly organized and hardly publicized, over 300 men publicized, over 300 men and women came to and women came to Seneca Falls, New York to Seneca Falls, New York to protest the mistreatment of protest the mistreatment of women in social, economic, women in social, economic, political, and religious life.  political, and religious life. 

First country to grant women the right to vote?

New Zealand.

1893

Other countries which guaranteed women’s right to vote prior to the U.S.

1902

1918

European countries led the way:

Finland – 1906

Norway – 1913

Denmark – 1915

Russia – 1917

Germany – 1918

And in 1919:

Austria

Belgium

Great Britain

Ireland

Luxembourg

The Netherlands

Sweden

Let Us Vote!Let Us Vote!

The The Nineteenth Nineteenth AmendmentAmendment ((Amendment XIXAmendment XIX) to the ) to the United States ConstitutionUnited States Constitution prohibits each prohibits each statestate and and the the federal governmentfederal government from denying any citizen from denying any citizen the the right to voteright to vote because because of that citizen's sex. It of that citizen's sex. It was ratified on August 18, was ratified on August 18, 1920.1920.

What lessons can we learn from the suffragists and early leaders of the women’s movement that are relevant to women today?

THE SECOND WAVETHE SECOND WAVE

Women’sEmpowerment

SocialWelfare

SocialJustice

Focus

March on Washington - March on Washington - 19631963

Where were the women?

Rosa Parks

Daisy Bates

Pauli Murray

Sometimes the men had trouble seeing why I Sometimes the men had trouble seeing why I was always linking desegregation with hunger was always linking desegregation with hunger and children and other social welfare issues.and children and other social welfare issues.

Dorothy Height

1912 - 2010

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night--she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question--"Is this all?"

The Feminine Mystique: Chapter 1 … Betty Friedan

The Mary Tyler Moore Show first aired in September of 1970 and was a breakthrough of sorts with women's liberation. The Mary Tyler Moore ran for seven years on CBS and was one of the most popular and acclaimed sitcoms of the seventies.

The show centered around Mary Richards, who moved to Minneapolis after a breakup with her fiancé and got a job as associate producer at a TV station.

Ms. was a brazen act of independence in the 1970s. At the time, the fledgling feminist movement was either denigrated or dismissed in the mainstream media -- if it was mentioned at all. Most magazines for women were limited to advice about saving marriages, raising babies, or using the right cosmetics.

Women’s Action Alliance

National Women’s Political Caucus

Coalition of Labor Union Women

Women’s Media Center

And Others

Equal Rights Amendment Equal Rights Amendment

“ “Equality of rights under the law shall Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the not be denied or abridged by the United States on account of sex.” United States on account of sex.”

Marian Ash

Who do you consider a role model from the Second Wave?

Transition to todayTransition to today

THE THIRD WAVETHE THIRD WAVE

NewReality

Cracking the Glass Ceiling

Work/LifeBalance

Focus

FEMINISMFEMINISM

Mary Baker Eddy

Aimee Semple McPherson

Mother Teresa

21st Century --- Women’s Rights Movement

Rabbi Denise Eger

"Rabbi Denise Eger has been an agent of change in our congregation, in our community, and indeed on a national level,"

David Levy, executive vice president of the Congregation Kol Ami Board of Trustees.

Mommy Track?

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Mommy Trap?

Is the “mommy track” unfairly criticized?

Mommy Track

Flexibility

Feminism TodayFeminism Today

Lindsey Horvath

I believe active political participation (voting, in particular); healthy body image; pay equity; and ending violence against women are among the top issues facing young women who are finding their voice and presence in the public sphere.

Amy Elaine Wakeland

We hear an awful lot about professional women's double burden, which is a real and serious issue that leaves a lot of women I know chronically exhausted.

But …

we don’t hear nearly as much about working-class women who must manage this double burden without any kind of workplace flexibility, without access to reliable and affordable child care services and without much ability to afford conveniences, like occasionally taking their families out for dinner.

Amy Elaine Wakeland

What do you believe is the most important women’s rights issue that we

face today?

FROM BLOOMERS TO THE BOARDROOM---AND

BEYOND

A History of Feminism

Written by: Rosemary Enzer, Chair; Lynn Brandstater, Marjory Hopper, and Anne Marie Johnson. Additional research by Katherine Winans. Bloomer photograph by Janell Mithani.

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