Women's History Final

1. Women’s Trade Union League

Founded in 1903 because AFL would not organize women

workers in unions. Cross-class alliance of trade unionists and middle and

upper-class women. made up most of latter. supported workers during the shirtwaist strike of 1909-1910. brought in wealthy white women to the cause

Lochner v. New York (1905)

the Supreme Court ruled a state law limiting the workday to ten hours for those employed in bakeries was unconstitutional. seen as an infringement on individual freedom of contract

Brandeis Brief

argued women are weaker than men and it was the states responsibility to protect them. maternalism assumptions undergirded this decision. as well as they must shelter them from physical and dangerous work because they produce future citizens

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

5. Comstock Act (1873)

6. Margaret Sanger

7. heterosociality

8. companionate marriage

9. Dorothea Lange

10. League of Women Voters

11. “forgotten man”

12. Eleanor Roosevelt

13. family wage

14. Mary McLeod Bethune

15. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

16. Social Security Act of 1935

17. Office of War Information (OWI)

18. Executive Order 8802

19. GI Bill

20. Alfred Kinsey

21. Kitchen Debates

22. House Un-American Activities

Committee (HUAC)

23. Executive Order 9835

24. Mary Keyserling

25. Congress of American Women

26. Betty Friedan

27. The Feminine Mystique

28. Bridge leaders

29. Josaphine Baker

30. Rosa Parks

31. Student Non-Violent Coordinating

Committee (SNCC)

32. 1964 Civil Rights Act

33. Ella Baker

34. Presidential Commission on the Status

of Women

35. National Organization for Women

(NOW)

36. Nina Simone

37. Miss America 1968

38. consciousness-raising groups

39. “personal is politcal”

40. Sisterhood is Powerful

41. Combahee River Collective

42. Phyllis Schlafly

43. New Right