Women synthesis pairings

Question 1

FG action impeding social progress

Answer 1

• 1927 Buck v. Bell case upheld state rights to forcibly sterilise women, stripping them of their bodily autonomy.
• 1917 arrest of Margaret Sanger & 1872 arrest of Susan B. Anthony = continued vicious repressive desire to prohibit female activism.

Question 2

FG action improving social progress

Answer 2

• FDA 1960 introduction of the 1st commercially produced birth control pill
• 1965 Griswold V. Connecticut = The SC ruled that women had a ‘right to privacy’ under the constitution = granted women control over their own bodies
• 1973 Roe V. Wade

Question 3

FG action limiting economic progress

Question 4

FG action improving economic progress

Answer 4

• 1964 Equal Pay act

Question 5

FG action limiting political progress

Answer 5

• 1875 Minor V Happersett
• 1870 15th amendment deliberately excludes women from the constitutional right to vote.

Question 6

FG action improving political progress

Answer 6

• 1878 Senator Sargent’s (failed) attempt to push through legislation to allow Californian women the right to vote.
• 19th amendment 1920 consolidated the FG actual ability to accelerate women’s political rights by enshrining it in law.

PRESIDENTIAL ACTION:
FDR: Frances Perkins was appointed as Secretary of Labour in 1933, alongside Ruth Owen as 1st female ambassador & Florence Allen as 1st fem. appeal court judge in 34.
This was important as it showed that women were now becoming a valued voice in politics & had slightly more influence than previously.

Reagan: 1981 Sandra Day O’Connor = 1st female SC justice
Although demonstrates that women were now increasingly trusted with policymaking & allowed into male-dominated fields, still show the limitations present for women.
The nearly 50 year gap between the appointment of these women demonstrates that the battle for women’s political rights was arduous.