Women

Question 1

How many states had brought in equal pay laws by the end of the war

Answer 1

4

Question 2

What percentage of the work force did women make up by 1950?

Answer 2

29%

Question 3

HOWEVER…

Answer 3

The fact that women so willingly gave up their war time jobs to return to their traditional roles as housewives was perhaps damaging to their cause

Question 4

What was the name of the famous feminist who researched into the subsequent careers of past students? What did she find?

Answer 4

BETTY FRIEDAN researched into the subsequent careers of past students at an all female university, and found, disappointingly, that 89% were homemakers

Question 5

By 1959 __% of all women were working, with ___ attending university

Answer 5

By 1959 38% of all women were working, with 1.3 million attending university

Question 6

What did historian James T. Patterson suggest?

Answer 6

JAMES T. PATTERSON

Concluded that women wanted jobs more than careers

Question 7

Despite progress….

Answer 7

• still few opportunities for female career advancement
• labour unions didn’t tend to support women
• influential book ‘Modern Women - the Lost Sex’ blamed career women for teenage drinking and delinquency