WOMEN revision: presidents

FDR

1933-45 POL: appointed Frances Perkins as first female cabinet member, wife= very politically active ECO: new deal

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

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, appointed a record No of women to federal roles.

JFK

1961-63 POL: Presidents commission on the status of women 1961= highlighted discrimination in employment ECO: equal pay act 1963 SOC: commission for special training in motherhood, against abortion

Truman

1945-53 POL: executive order 9981- desegregating armed forces, supported ERA

clinton

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

Ulysses Grant

1869-77 POL: supported 14th A but excluded women, met with some suffragette activists

Theodore Roosevelt

1901-09 POL: opposed suffrage

woodrow wilson

1913-21 POL: 19th A 1920, women’s bureau 1920. ECO: during ww1- increased women’s participation in workforce

Herbert Hoover

1929-33 POL: opposed ERA ECO: depression hit women hard- first to loose jobs

Andrew Johnson

1865-69 POL: opposed suffrage

Grover Cleveland

1885-89, 1893-97 POL: opposed suffrage

reagan

1981-89 POL: opposed era, appointed SC Pro-Life judges ECO: cut funding in welfare programmes

George Bush

1989-93 POL: didnt prioritise gender equality legislation SOC: was against abortion, vetoed a bill for parental leave