The Wave of Feminism
Being Objects and Having Objectives
Caitlyn Williams
Vision and Motivation
19th Amendment
Objectives and Goals
The Real "Rosie"
My Body, My Choice
We Are Not Slaves
A Revelation
Humiliation
FACTS
2. 1966
The National Organization for Women, known as NOW, was founded. NOW set up task forces to work on key women's issues.
3. The 38 percent of American women who worked in 1960 were largely limited to jobs as teacher, nurse, or secretary. Women were generally unwelcome in professional programs; as one medical school dean declared.
4. Feminist leaders were also inspired by the Civil Rights movement, through which many of them had gained civic organizing experience. At the same time, black women played a key role in the Civil Rights movement, especially through local organizations, but were shut out of leadership role.
5. Through the first wave of the women's rights movement, which ended when women gained the right to vote in 1920, through the second wave of the new women's movement, which began in the 1960s, and the contemporary third wave, women's movements in the United States have been linked to the struggles for civil rights for African Americans.
6. According to Estelle Carol, since the number of workingwomen increased in the 1960s, men felt reluctant to share housework, but this improved and men have been taking more responsibility for childcare as well.
7. The last and major area, in which the 1960s made significant changes for women, was in the workplace. As stated by Estelle Carol, “In the 1960s, there were no women bus drivers, welders, firefighters, news anchors, CEOS or Supreme Court Justices. Women professors, doctors, scientists or lawyers were rare."