Women’s Rights Movement

1. Quiz Women’s RightsMovement Choose a picture of a famous women’s rights leader to begin. When you have gone through all of the leaders, go to the video and then the quiz. Video

2. Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906, Suffragist • Anthony pushed for women’s right to vote also referred to as women’s suffrage. • Founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association in 1869. • Anthony was the first person arrested, put on trial, and fined for voting in 1872. • Anthony wrote the Susan B. Anthony amendment in 1878. This later became the 19th amendment. Main Menu Next

3. Susan B. Anthony • Anthony published “The Revolution” from 1868-1870. It was a weekly paper about the women suffrage movement. • Anthony served as the president of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association until 1900. • Anthony published “The History of Woman Suffrage” with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage. Main Menu Next Back

4. Susan B. Anthony • What would you do in Anthony’s position? Vote Not Vote

5. Susan B. Anthony • What would you do in Anthony’s position? Pay the fine Not pay the fine

6. Susan B. Anthony • What you do in Anthony’s position? Fight for women’s suffrage Not fight for women’s suffrage

7. Betty Friedan 1921-2006, writer, activist, feminist • Friedan was dissatisfied with her life as a housewife. • In 1963, Friedan published The Feminine Mystique which depicted the roles of full time homemakers. • In addition to The Feminine Mystique, Friedan also wrote The Second Stage, It Changed My Life, and The Fountain of Age. Main Menu Next

8. Betty Friedan • Through the publication of The Feminine Mystique, Friedan is often seen as starting the women movement of the 1960’s and the 1970’s. • Friedan cofounded the U.S. National Organization for Woman and served as its first president. Main Menu Next Back

9. Betty Friedan • Read the following excerpt from The Feminine Mystique and answer the questions. Every time you hear the applause, you have picked the right answer. Main Menu Next Back

10. Betty Friedan The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. 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?“ For over fifteen years there was no word of this yearning in the millions of words written about women, for women, in all the columns, books and articles by experts telling women their role was to seek fulfillment as wives and mothers. Main Menu Next Back

11. Betty Friedan • What phrase did Friedan claim that many suburban wives asked themselves? • How many years did women keep quiet about their positions in the home? Is this all? What should I do? Over 15 years Less than five years

12. Betty Friedan • What role should women be fulfilled by being in it? Wives and mothers Doctors and lawyers

13. Carol Hanisch • Founding member of New York Radical Women • Initiated the idea to protest the Miss America pageant and disrupted it by hanging a women’s liberation banner over the balcony in 1968. • Wrote “What Can Be Learned: A Critique of the Miss America Protest” Main Menu Next

14. Carol Hanisch • Organized southern women into the Women’s Liberation Movement • Wrote the essay “The Personal is Political” which became a popular phrase of the movement Main Menu Next Back

15. Carol Hanisch What do you think? • Should Carol Hanisch have protested the pageant? Yes No

16. Carol Hanisch • Do you think Carol Hanisch was too radical? Yes No

17. Carol Hanisch • Do you think the phrase “the personal is political” is a good phrase for the women’s rights movement? Yes No

18. Gloria Steinem (1934-present) Writer, feminist • Wrote the column called “The City Politic” for New York Magazine • Publishes first feminist piece, “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation” in 1968 Main Menu Next

19. Gloria Steinem • In 1971, Steinem joined the National Women’s Political Caucus. • Also in 1971, Steinem founded Ms. Magazine, the first magazine to offer a woman’s viewpoint on current issues. Main Menu Next Back

20. Gloria Steinem • Read the following excerpt from an article from Ms. Magazine in 1972. In the Harris-Setlow poll, 71 percent of the women questioned believed that "women are more sensitive to the problems of the poor and underprivileged than men are." A majority of women believed that "women attach greater value to human life" and "have more artistic ability and appreciation of the arts than men do." A majority of both men and women were convinced that a woman president would be less likely to take the country into war. Women also believed that females were more pacifist than males; cared more about protecting consumer interests; found war less justifiable under any circumstance; and were generally less hardened to the suffering of other people. These cultural differences, the women respondents said, would be evident in decisions made by a woman in office. Summing up both the 1971 and 1972 polls, Louis Harris agreed. "Women are voting differently from men," he said. "They are more inclined now to vote and to become active not only for their own self-interest, but for the interest of society, the world, and most of all, out of compassion for humanity." Main Menu Back Next

21. Gloria Steinem • This article states that women appreciate the arts more. True False

22. Gloria Steinem • Men and women are more convinced that a woman president would be more likely to take the country into war. True False

23. Gloria Steinem • Do women vote differently than men? Yes No

24. Other Women’s Rights Leaders • Simone de Beauvoir, a French philosopher, is associated with the women’s movement because of her idea that men have made women the “other” in society. • Eleanor Roosevelt was made chairwoman of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women under John F. Kennedy. Main Menu

25. Video • Watch the following video about the women’s rights movement. To hear the video again press the play button. There may be questions from the video on the quiz. Main Menu Next

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27. Quiz • Directions: • Each question is based on information in this presentation. • The questions are multiple choice. Choose the answer you think is correct. You can not move on to the next question until you click the right answer. Again listen for the applause. Main Menu Next

28. Quiz • Which women’s rights leader wrote The Feminine Mystique? • Susan B. Anthony • Carol Hanisch • Betty Friedan • Gloria Steinem Main Menu Next Back

29. Quiz • Eleonor Roosevelt was made chairwoman by ________. • John F. Kennedy • Teddy Roosevelt • Robert Kennedy • Barack Obama Main Menu Next Back

30. Quiz • Susan B. Anthony fought for • Women’s right to vote • Equal pay for women • Better jobs for women • Rights for African Americans Main Menu Next Back

31. Quiz • Who founded Ms. Magazine? • Eleanor Roosevelt • Susan B. Anthony • Jacqueline Kennedy • Gloria Steinem Main Menu Next Back

32. Quiz • ________ protested the Miss American Pageant? • Carol Hanisch • Gloria Steinem • Michelle Obama • Eleanor Roosevelt Main Menu Back