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Chapter 15: Women, the Oppressed Majority

Across
Society's view of a woman as only her children's mother and her husband's wife.
First college to admit women.
Women whose primary occupation had been homemaking but who did not find full-time employment after being divorced, separated, or widowed.
Federal guidelines designed to eliminate sexist practices from educational institutions.
First women's college
The sociologist who found that women are far more involved in the lives of their children, than fathers.
The barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified worker because gender or minority membership
Acronym for the organization founded by Betty Friedan, seeking equal rights for women.
An ideology establishing equal rights for women.
The tendency for men and women to be employed in different occupations from each other
The___________ Amendment gave women the right to vote.
The double burden of working outside the house followed by housework and childcare.
The same wages for different types of work that are judged to be comparable by such measures as employee knowledge, skills, effort, responsibility and working conditions also called comparable worth
The amendment which banned the use of Medicaid and other federal funds for abortions.
The town attributed with the start of the feminist movement.
Lower salaries women receive over their lifetime because they have children.
Down
The trend since 1970 in which women account for a growing proportion of those who live below the poverty line.
The amendment enforcing a women's "right to privacy".
Women and men who worked successfully to gain women the right to vote.
Cumulative impact of oppression because of race gender and class as well as sexual orientation, religion, disability status and age.
Any unwanted and unwelcome sexual advances that interfere with a person's ability to perform a job and enjoy the benefit of the job.
Expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes and activities of males and females.
The state of being both masculine and feminine, aggressive and passive.
The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.