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The 1970’s

The 1970’s. What caused the role of women to change in the 1970’s? How did it change, and to what?. Women’s Demands. Equality Work in offices, schools, law firms, labs Change role of women Equal pay. Fight for rights. Role changed due to feminist movement Protested and picketed

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The 1970’s

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  1. The 1970’s

  2. What caused the role of women to change in the 1970’s? How did it change, and to what?

  3. Women’s Demands • Equality • Work in offices, schools, law firms, labs • Change role of women • Equal pay

  4. Fight for rights • Role changed due to feminist movement • Protested and picketed • Strikes against sexist laws

  5. Results • More job opportunities- wages 45% less • Frontiero v Richardson in 1973- illegal wage discrimination • Mid 70s- women earned right to work politics, science, business, and law. • Right to choose abortion • Laws around divorce, rape, and healthcare reformed

  6. Role Change • Virginia Slim Cigarette Ad • More working women, less at home • Feminism revolutionized sense of gender roles

  7. Did television in the 70s reflect the cultural changes of the time, or push for change?

  8. Children’s Television • Education Valued • Educational Programs - Sesame Street, School Rock • 1972 Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids- Morals • 1974 Statement FCC

  9. Tv and Social issues • Reflect and Push Change - Social Issues • All In The Family • Reflect Attitude of Times • Push For Change – Reinforce

  10. Was the American peoples’ confidence in their government shaken in the 1970s? If so, how?

  11. Watergate/Nixon • June 17 1972 5 men broke into Democratic National Committee HQ • Connections found between burglar and Nixon’s committee • 1973 top advisors testified • Nixon involved in cover up • Revealed corruption in Nixon admin

  12. WaterGate/Nixon • Tapes of Whitehouse meetings • Faced impeachment, resigned • VP Ford granted Nixon a pardon • Ford’s polls dropped from 71 to 49%

  13. VP Spiro Agnew Scandal • 1973 accused of accepting bribes when governor of Maryland • Charged with federal income tax evasion • In middle of Watergate

  14. Vietnam • People don’t want the war • Violence on TV • Vietnam didn’t want us there • Gov made public think war was necessary • Men killing, being killed for nothing • Lost war- no longer ‘invincible’ • Lose pride, confidence, become suspicious

  15. How did the 70’s energy crisis come about, and how did it Affect the united states?

  16. How it started • Oct 6 1973 USA support Israel in war with Arab neighbors • Oct 19 oil-exporting countries of ME cut off oil to US • In response oil prices skyrocket • High Energy use--10 MPG or less • Homes/businesses poorly insulated

  17. Effect on Auto Industry • Limited sales of gas, gas station hours • Auto industry lost business • Detroit lost revenue to fuel-efficient imports • Auto companies went bankrupt/ forced to convert to natural gas (pricy) • Auto industry- high costs, low profit, layoffs, bankruptcy

  18. Effect on usa • Shortage of electricity, gas, heating oil • Factories and schools shut down • Commercial flights canceled • Electrical brownouts

  19. Effect on usa • Blackouts in cities/businesses • Heavy import of fuel • High gas prices • Massive unemployment

  20. Bille jean king • Born Nov 22 1943 CA • Female tennis player • Equal rights in sports • Battle of the sexes 1973 • Women’s Tennis Association 73 • Women’s Sports Foundation 74 • Women’s Sports Magazine 74

  21. Nolan Bushnell • 1943 Utah • Father of video game industry

  22. Nolan Bushnell Chuck E Cheese Sold Atari Home Pong Computer Space Atari Founded Tank Pong 1970 1977

  23. Bibliography • Bondi, Victor. American Decades: 1970-1979. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. Print. • Feinstein, Stephen. The 1970s from Watergate to Disco. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2000. Print. • Watson, Jeri. "1970s and '80s Were a Period of Change in American Society." American History: (VOA Special English 2007-07-04). N.p., n.d. Web. 09 June 2013. <http://www.manythings.org/voa/history/224.html>.

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