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melissa basso

Rosie the Riveter - History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts - 0 views

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  • American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers during World War II
  • as widespread male enlistment left gaping holes in the industrial labor force. Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent, and by 1945 nearly one out of every four married women worked outside the home. "Rosie the Riveter," star of a government campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for the munitions industry, became perhaps the most iconic image of working women during the war
  • the strong, bandanna-clad Rosie became one of the most successful recruitment tools in American history, and the most iconic image of working women in the World War II era.
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  • In May 1942, Congress instituted the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, later upgraded to the Women's Army Corps, which had full military status.
  • In addition to factory work and other home front jobs, some 350,000 women joined the Armed Services, serving at home and abroad.
  • In movies, newspapers, posters, photographs and articles, the Rosie the Riveter campaign stressed the patriotic need for women to enter the work force.
  • One of the lesser-known roles women played in the war effort was provided by the Women's Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs. These women, each of whom had already obtained their pilot's license prior to service, became the first women to fly American military aircraft.
  • melissa basso on 04 Nov 13
     
    History.com displays a very informative set of videos, images and articles discussing the meaning behind "Rosie the Riveter", the iconic image associated with gender equality. World War II marked the beginning of changes in gender ideologies as women found themselves carrying out duties that were typically filled by men. Women were also called to the war and the empowerment of a revolution began. 
Kathryn Walker

Sex Difference vs. Gender Difference? Oh, I'm So Confused! | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • Kathryn Walker on 04 Nov 13
     
    According to the World Health Organization, "Sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women." Behavior is never either nature or nurture. It is always a very complex interweaving of both. Because behavior is always an interaction of nature and nurture, socialization can modify even significant sex differences.
Jasmine Wade

Gender Roles and Gender Differences - 0 views

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#gender #roles #LGBT # parents development #children #differences

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  • Kathryn Walker on 04 Nov 13
     
    This is part of "Child Psychology, A Contemporary Viewpoint" which discusses gender-role standards and stereotypes, gender differences in development, biological factors in gender differences, the influence of the family on gender typing, and extrafamilial influences on gender roles.
  • Jasmine Wade on 10 Nov 13
     
    This website is covering child psychology and children's development related to gender. This page discusses gender roles, stereotypes, and differences. Also mentioned briefly is that there is no evidence of differed gender roles if boys and girls raised by gays and lesbians. Other influences on gender roles, including television and school is discussed. Also mentioned is the fact that most people, especially children are actually to various degrees both masculine and feminine, not completely one or the other.
melissa basso

National Women's History Project - 0 views

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  • Although women now outnumber men in American colleges nationwide, the reversal of the gender gap is a very recent phenomenon.
  • After the American Revolution, the notion of education as a safeguard for democracy created opportunities for girls to gain a basic education
  • based largely on the premise that, as mothers, they would nurture not only the bodies but also the minds of (male) citizens
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  • experts” who claimed either that females were incapable of intellectual development equal to men, or that they would be harmed by striving for it.
  • Emma Willard, in her 1819 Plan for Improving Female Education,
  • Harvard, the first college chartered in America, was founded in 1636, it would be almost two centuries before the founding of the first college to admit women—Oberlin, which was chartered in 1833.
  • ingle-sex education remained the elite norm in the U.S. until the early 1970s.
  • The equal opportunity to learn, taken for granted by most young women today, owes much to Title IX of the Education Codes of the Higher Education Act Amendments. This legislation, passed in 1972 and enacted in 1977, prohibited gender discrimination by federally funded institutions.
  • melissa basso on 04 Nov 13
     
    This particular link is to an article on the history of women's education and rights to equal rights in terms of receiving the same education as do their male counterparts.  The website, as a whole, provides great insight into the history of women's rights in many aspects. It also traces the triumphs and successes of women throughout history. 
Drew Yost

Women's Liberation Movement - 1 views

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  • feminism is defined as the theory of the political, economic, and the social equality of the sexes
  • During World War II, over six million women took an active part in the work force
  • Mary Wollstonecraft was the first feminist when she published A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792 in which she advocated for the "social and moral equality of sexes".
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  • aced with cases that dealt with the reproductive rights of women
  • true in other areas, such as race, class, and religion, but was prevelant in the way men sterotyped women
  • 950’s women were becoming disgruntled with their place in society and the inability to obtain employment and achieve equality.
  • 960’s was a year of chan
  • 1961, President Kennedy established the Commission on the Status of Women
  • employment, Social Security, education and tax laws
  • At the end of the war, women were laid off from the positions they had during the war. Women again were thrown into the life of being a housewife.
  • 1963, the Federal Government amended the Equal Rights Act.
  • sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same work establishment was prohibited.
  • to protect women from being discriminated against in the work
  • Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Betty Friedan and twenty-eight women founded the National Organization for Women (NOW).
  • organization was incorporated in 1967
  • boycotted the 1968 Miss America Beauty Contest in Atlantic City to let it be known that women’s worth wasn’t about their appearance.
  • no longer about the right to vote, but it became the battle to be recognized as a citizen and a person.
  • Task forces were created in support of the right to an abortion and protection for victims of rape.
  • The organization is still fighting for the rights of women and ensuring that the organization stays true to the ideals of its founding members.
  • melissa basso on 04 Nov 13
     
    The importance of particular women in the history of women's liberation. Particularly discussed is the issue of women's rights and acceptance as equal contributors in society.
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  • melissa basso on 11 Nov 13
     
    That's odd, how does it say you(Drew) shared this website? I added this and the annotations on Monday. :-/
  • Drew Yost on 11 Nov 13
     
    Its ok melissa, I saw that and do I did not annotate and I found another source, but I couldnt delete the share. No worries.
  • melissa basso on 11 Nov 13
     
    Okay- I was just confused- couldn't figure out how that happened-
melissa basso

A brief history of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-73 | libcom.org - 0 views

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  • On the 27th June, 1969 as part of its policy of raiding and closing Gay Bars, the New York Police arrived at the Stonewall Inn to rough up the customers
  • riot that spread throughout the West Village,
  • moved to the Alternative University in Greenwich Village where they founded what became the Gay Liberation Front.
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  • 13th October, 1970
  • “Not only did liberationists go to Philadelphia to show solidarity with the black movement, but it was there that Huey Newton as leader of the Panthers, first gave clear support of the Gay Cause, saying that homosexuals were maybe the most oppressed people of American society, and could well be the most revolutionary.”1
  • In February ’72 the women formally split from gay lib.
  • In December the GLF Demands & Principles were agreed on, and in October of ’71 the publication of the GLF Manifesto. “Gay shows the way. In some ways we are already outside the family and we have already, in part at least, rejected the ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ role society has designed for us. In a society dominated by the sexist culture it is very difficult, if not impossible, for heterosexual men and women to escape their rigid gender-role structuring and the roles of oppressor and oppressed.
  • In July ’72 the first Gay Pride march left Trafalgar Square and marched to Hyde Park for the Gay Pride Party, with over a thousand in attendance, and accompanied by two thousand police.
  • Psychiatric Establishments wholesale acceptance of Judeo Christian prejudice, Biblical authority, and the use of electric shock/emetic drug programmes on gays and lesbians who did not fit in, or who were found guilty of breaking the law
  • Overwhelmed in numbers and ignored by gay men generally, they decided to work separately.
  • melissa basso on 04 Nov 13
     
    The stories surrounding gay liberation, protests and marches that set the platform for gay and lesbian acceptance. 
erin Garris

Posts Tagged 'Christopher Street Liberation Day March' - 0 views

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#gender #women #gayrights

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  • The idea for a gay community march started in 1970 with the Christopher Street Gay Liberation March. The event originated outside of the Stonewall Inn, at 53 Christopher Street, the morning of June 28, 1970, and continued up Fifth Avenue to end in Central Park. The march started with only a few hundred people at Stonewall and ended with several thousand by the time it concluded in Central Park. The marches formed to bring gay and lesbian individuals together and show they were a sizable minority population, something that mainstream society did not believe. The purpose of the march was to build a safe community for homosexuals
  • Joanna Ng on 04 Nov 13
     
    This article revolves all around the iconic photo of Donna Gottschalk at the Christopher Street Ga Liberation March in 1970. It chronicles the events leading up to the creation of the march and the evolution of rights for the LGBT community as well as the 40th anniversary in 2009.
  • David McLellan on 05 Nov 13
     
    This site gives the history of the 1970 Christopher Street march where the famous photograph of Donna Gottschalk was taken. A need for safety, both physical and political was needed for the City's homosexual community and they came together to march for their rights. From this start in 1970 many advances in Gay Pride and Gay Rights became possible.
Joanna Ng

The Women's Movement in the '70s, Today: 'You've Come a Long Way,' But... - 0 views

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#gender #women #journey

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Nov 13
     
    Alongside the fight for LGBT equality, women were struggling to raise themselves as a whole as well. This article examines women in the workforce within the 1970s and compares it to the females in the working world today.
Joanna Ng

Timeline: Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement - 1 views

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#milestone #rightsforall #gender

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Nov 13
     
    PBS provides an extensive timeline that have propelled gay rights within America, beginning with the Society for Human Rights in December 1924 through June 2011 when New York State passed the Marriage Equality Act.
Joanna Ng

Gay and Lesbian Rights - 0 views

www.boundless.com/...gay-and-lesbian-rights

#gender #equality #history

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Nov 13
     
    This website is a textbook alternative, and presents key points as well as a variety of information in the format of a chapter overview and/or summary. In this case, it is pinpointing the expansion of the Civil Rights Movement and the Gay and Lesbian Rights movements which were seeking acceptance and equality for the LGBT community.
Joanna Ng

The Women's Movement - 0 views

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#gender #women #girlpower

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Nov 13
     
    This site is a brief summary of the women's movement from the 1950s until the late 1970s. It is a great source for gaining quick perspective on the society during that point in time and how women took measures to improve their livelihood.
Janet Thomas

LGBT Rights | American Civil Liberties Union - 0 views

www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights

#gender #aclu #civilrights

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  • Janet Thomas on 30 Oct 13
     
    The American Civil Liberties Union seeks to "defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties" that are afforded to citizens as outlined in the U.S. Constitution. This page from the ACLU site addresses LGBT rights and seeks to allow LGBT individuals to live "free of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity". The history of LGBT civil rights cases goes back to 1936 and continues to this day.
Janet Thomas

Why Gender Equality Stalled - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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#gender #womensmovement #gendergap

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  • Janet Thomas on 30 Oct 13
     
    This article from the NY Times site talks about the impact that Betty Friedan's book "The Feminine Mystique" had on altering women's perceptions of their gender roles and their place in American society. While the article is a little lengthy the first page alone offers a great deal of history and statistics concerning the gender gap and its persistence in American culture.
Roman Vladimirsky

The Great Depression - 0 views

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#class #GreatDepression #NewDeal #FDR

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  • Roman Vladimirsky on 08 Oct 13
     
    This website goes deep into the Great Depression, how it began and how it ended. Beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and Black Tuesday and finally with FDR's New Deal America came out of the Great Depression. Many people lost their jobs and some their lives to constant poverty and hunger. It looks as though the woman in the photo was a victim.
Roman Vladimirsky

A fading middle class - 0 views

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#class #middleclass #usa

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  • Roman Vladimirsky on 08 Oct 13
     
    This website gives more insight into the ever fading middle class in America today. The woman in the photo is part of the lower class. She is also from a time where there was only a third class and a first class. The last 50 years or so there developed a middle class where the majority of Americans fell into. This website shows you statistically how as of late the middle class has been slowly fading away yet again.
Roman Vladimirsky

Social Class in America - 0 views

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#class #greatdepression #lowerclass

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  • Roman Vladimirsky on 08 Oct 13
     
    This site shows how social class still plays a big role in American society. Although today there is barely such thing as the middle class, you are either lower class or upper class. The image shows a woman who is clearly in the lower class and you can tell by her appearance. The image is most likely from the Great Depression and you can see by this site that almost nothing has changed in almost a century.
Jacqueline Alley

Conflict in America During the Great Depression - 0 views

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#class #GreatDepression #social status #America #conflict

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  • Jacqueline Alley on 07 Oct 13
     
    This site explains the relationship of the wealthy and poor during the 1930s. When the Great Depression began, the lower class people who lost their jobs sold what they could to get buy, even their houses. The wealthy were able to buy homes, land, and even stock for very low prices, which only made them richer. Lower class fought for tax changes to balance the nation's wealth.
Janet Thomas

BRIA 14 3 a How Welfare Began in the United States - Constitutional Rights Foundation - 0 views

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#class #depression #welfare

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  • Janet Thomas on 07 Oct 13
     
    The Constitutional Rights Foundation site seeks to educate people about the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This page deals with the institution of the welfare system in the U.S.and it's link to the Great Depression era.
anonymous

Blacks and the Great Depression - 0 views

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#class #GreatDepression #AfricanAmericansDuringGreatDepression

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  • anonymous on 07 Oct 13
     
    This article is about race and the Great Depression. There were many strikes that African Americans organized during the 1930s. Many of these strikes were in opposition to the government. The article also mentioned some of the official organizations of workforces and unions in the United States of America during that time.
anonymous

Race in the 1930s - 0 views

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#class #race #GreatDepression #NewDeal

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  • anonymous on 07 Oct 13
     
    This was a short work on race and the Great Depression. What many do not realize, is that the 1930s were a very unstable time for race relations. Race was not put on the back burner because of the economic problems. I found the picture of the The New Yorker to be particularly interesting.
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