WOMEN REVISION: supreme court/congress acts

19th Ammendment

1920

14th/15th Ammendment

1868/1870

ERA Campaign

1923-1969, first drafted by Alice Paul. submitted to states in 1972, but not ratified

Civil rights act

1964

Planned parenthood vs Casey

1992- upheld roe v wade, but more state regulation

Space Race

1957- opened more jobs

Service Readjustment act (GI Bill)

1944- gave ex-servicemen funding for higher education, 40% increase in higher professions

Women’s Bureau

1920- to focus on working conditions, but backlash from employers

Lanham Act

1940- fed grants given to mothers in armament industry, withdrawn by 1946 and only 3 states funded childcare

equal pay act

1963

Equal employment opportunity committee

1965- didn’t satisfy feminist calls, showed glass ceiling idea

Hyde act

1976- restricted federal funds from being used for abortions, bad as by then 1/3 of abortion patients had low incomes

equal credit opportunity act

1974- banned discrimination in access to bank loans/ credit/ mortgages

Fair labour standards act

1938- established minimum wage and maximum hours, still not equal

Social security act

1935- benefits for poor families

homestead act

1862- opportunity to own some land

Aid to dependant children

1935- helped women with no male breadwinner-humiliating

WPA

1935- Works progress administration- by 1938, 14-18% women in jobs

Glass steagal act

1933- more confidence in saving

Title IX

1972- prohibited sexual discrimination in all education activities

maternity negative point

by 1992, still no federal law requiring paid maternity leave

economy act

1932- FDR supported- If Husband and Wife were both employed in federal government- the wife would be first to be fired during layoffs

Shepheard Towner act

1921- funds for maternity/infant care- stopped by 1929

18th Amendment

1919

21st Amendment

1933

Child development act

1971- vetoed by Nixon

Roe vs Wade

1973- less illegal abortions. 43% increase in workforce participation in 70s

Comstock laws

1873- stopped sending birth control or giving advice

Johnson Reed act

1924- stopped a lot of immigrants, more jobs available

Griswold vs Connectiucut

1965- established right to privacy for married couples regarding contraception