Women's Rights

Women's Rights

PPT Activity

Multiple Choice

Who is the character that is listed in the picture?

• Doris the Doughnut

• Rosie the Riveter

Multiple Select

Feminism is the belief that men and women should be equal

• Socially

• Economically

• Politically

Multiple Choice

The Civil Rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s prompted women to examine the ways that society discriminated against them as a group.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act put into law job discrimination.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

1963 the Equal Pay Act was passed. It outlawed paying men more than women for the same job.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

In 1972 Congress enacted Title IX legislation that prohibits federally funded schools from discriminating against girls in all aspects of their operations, from admissions to athletics.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Studies suggest a “glass ceiling” exists that limits the advancement of women to higher paying jobs.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The Supreme Court ruled that state gov’ts could no longer regulate abortion during the first 3 months of pregnancy, a time w/in a woman’s constitutional right to privacy

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Roe v. Wade

• Brown v. Board of Education

Multiple Choice

What is the percentage of women in the workforce today?

• 30%

• 20%

• 50%

• 60%

Open Ended

Do you believe in feminism? Why or why not?