WorksheetsModern Women's Movement and Formation of NOW (#214-235)
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Which of the following write the book The Feminine Mystique?
Betty Friedan
Gloria Steinem
Bella Abzug
Phyllis Schlafly
What was the 'problem with no name' in The Feminine Mystique?
the lack of voting rights for women
the sense of dissatisfaction many women felt in their domestic lives
the lack of equality in divorce laws
the lack of ability for women to move up in the workforce
In The Feminine Mystique, the author wrote that women were not genetically programmed for what?
to work outside the home
to have children
to spend their life caring for their husband, children, and home
all of the above
Which of the following women pushed the EEOC to pursue claims of discrimination based on sex?
Betty Friedan
Gloria Steinem
Bella Abzug
Phyllis Schlafly
Which of the following was the nation's first congresswomen and a close friend of Alice Paul?
Jeannette Rankin
Pauli Murray
Betty Friedan
Bella Abzug
The movement for women's rights in the 1960s and 1970s, led by Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, was known as
the birth of feminism
the second wave of feminism
the third wave of feminism
the women's suffrage movement
What was the 'first wave' of feminism?
the push for legal rights, including the right to vote, for women
the push for equal rights for women in the 1960s and 1970s
the push for greater representation in the 1990s and early 2000s
the abolition movement before the Civil War
Which of the following wrote Le Deuxieme Sexe (The Second Sex)?
Gloria Steinem
Betty Friedan
Bella Abzug
Simone de Beauvoir
Which of the following was a women's rights activist and journalist who started Ms. Magazine?
Glorie Steinem
Betty Friedan
Bella Abzug
Simone de Beauvoir
By 1960, the number of working women had risen to what percentage of the workforce?
22%
35%
50%
64%
In May 1960, the Foot and Drug Administration approved what drug, despite it being illegal in many states?
Oral contraceptives
Opioids
Anti-depressants
All of the Above
The National Organization of Women was founded in what year?
1923
1945
1966
1971
The NOW Statement of Purpose called for an end to discrimination in all of the following EXCEPT
employment
education
civil society
religion
The NOW Bill of Rights for Women called for all of the following EXCEPT
publicly funded daycare centers around the country
a repeal of all laws banning abortion
affirmative action plans in hiring for women
the Equal Rights Amendment
Which of the following founded the National Organization of Women?
Betty Friedan
Mary Eastwood
Pauli Murray
Both Answers 1 and 2
NOW's first organized protest was to picket what?
The White House
THE EEOC
The Capitol
Wall Street Banks
After which of the following people joined NOW, the organization began to fight for the ERA?
Alice Paul
Pauli Murray
Carrie Catt
Gloria Steinem
At its second national conference, NOW voted to make which of the following its official goal?
passage of the ERA
to make it legal for pregnant women to have an abortion
provide access to free birth control
both answers 1 and 2
Delegates from which state believed that NOW was not radical enough and later left?
California
New York
Delaware
Washington
NOW drafted a Bill of Rights for Women that included all of the following EXCEPT
enforcement of laws banning employment discrimination
childcare centers allowing mothers to work
equal and unsegregated education
right to an abortion
Which other movement grew out of NOW and was far more radical?
the women's liberation movement
the women's freedom movement
The Eve in Eden movement
The Black Panther movement
