WOMEN revision: presidents

FDR

1933-45 POL: appointed Frances Perkins as first female cabinet member, wife Elanor= very politically active ECO: new deal- giving benefits to poorer families, provided jobs through WPA.

LBJ

1963-69 POL: signed civil rights act 1964, executive order 11246= banned sexual discrimination by federal contracts. ECO: enforced equal pay act with Great society policies= more education opportunities for women, enforced equal pay act 1963.

Nixon

1969-74 POL: signed Title IX 1972- banning sex discrimination in education, supported ERA. SOC: vetoed Child development act 1971.

Carter

1977-81 POL: supported ERA, even though not ratified, appointed a record No of women to federal roles.

JFK

1961-63 POL: Presidents commission on the status of women 1961= highlighted discrimination in unemployment ECO: equal pay act 1963 SOC: however= commission for special training in motherhood, due to religion was against abortion.

Truman

1945-53 POL: executive order 9981- desegregating armed forces

clinton

POL: called 1992 ‘year of the woman’, had 54 women in congress

Ulysses Grant

1869-1877 POL: supported 14th A but excluded women, met with some suffragette activists

Theodore Roosevelt

1901-09 POL: did not prioritise women’s voting rights, encourage traditional role for women

woodrow wilson

1931-21 POL: supported and signed 19th Amendment 1920, created women’s bureau 1920. ECO: during ww1- increased women’s participation in workforce

Herbert Hoover

1929-1933 POL: opposed ERA, ECO: depression hit women hard as first to be laid off

Andrew Johnson

1865-1869 POL: ignored women’s suffrage, ECO: more focused on south and reconstruction period.

Grover Cleveland

1885-89, 1893-97 POL: opposed suffrage ECO: limited fed invention with workplace equality

reagan

1981-89 POL: opposed era, appointed Pro-Life judges in supreme court ECO: cut funding in welfare programmes SOC: promoted traditional family values.

George Bush

1989-93 POL: didn’t prioritise gender equality legislation SOC: was against abortion, vetoed a bill for parental leave