Second Wave Feminism Quiz

True or False: Gloria Steinem wrote the book "The Feminine Mystique"

• True

• False

True or False: Betty Friedan's book, the Feminine Mystique focused on the dissatisfaction of highly educated, middle-class women.

• True

• False

Which of the people below was a co-founder of NOW (The National Organization for Women)?

• Betsy Ross

• Herbert Hoover

• Betty Friedan

• Lyndon B. Johnson

True or False: Prior to the 2nd Wave Feminist Movement (1960s & 1970s), women who got married were often fired. This essentially forced women to choose between marriage and a career.

• True

• False

According to the PowerPoint slide below, prominent leaders of the Second Wave Feminist Movement campaigned to...

• Stop discrimination against women in the workplace

• Pass an "Equal Rights Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution

• Establish publicly funded day-care centers

• All of the Above

Leading Feminist _________ ____________ once went undercover to write an expose on the exploitative conditions faced by Playboy "Bunnies"

• Betty Friedan

• Gloria Steinem

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Charlene the Feminist

True or False: Gloria Steinem co-founded the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971

• True

• False

Gloria Steinem founded and edited one of the most successful Feminist magazines of all time. By the mid-1970s, ____ ___________ had more than 500,000 monthly subscribers

• Steinem Papers

• Ms. Magazine

• Feminist Weekly

• Political Caucus