Notes Submission #13 Women Power I’m not Crazy (Am I?) Women could

Notes Submission #13

Women Power

I’m not Crazy (Am I?)

Women could now vote across the country; the 19th amendment was a great victory and everyone in the movement recognized it.

Women won suffrage but they do not have a political appointment, position of trust, legislative power, executive powers,Governors and including wage equality.

After the ratification of the 19th amendment there was among a lot of women who had been active in the movement.

Seneca Falls 1923

Paul saw the 19th amendment as a step with still more work to do.

In 1923 she organized the second Seneca Falls Convention in on the 75th anniversary. She attended the second convention to reinvigorate the movement. She was pushing women to another constitutional amendment “Equal Right Amendment “.

Women in Congress

The percentage of women elected to state and local office hovered around two to three percent. Women in general did not run for office and when they did they did not get elected

1920s

Was a fast-moving decade of change in American life. it was a decade where industrialization became the dominant feature of American life. a new sort of job ghetto opened up for women “secretary”. Women where almost half of college students in the US. They were cracking into professions that had excluded them for all time. Women could own property; married women could keep their wages.

Most state by the 20s women can get a divorce in execptional circumstances. The divorce rate in the early decades of the 1900s.

By the 1920s one of seven marriages ended in divorce. “fourteen percent of marriage were ending in divorce.

Home economics

Home economics teaching could help make women into good women again. It became required in almost every school system for girls only.

It was cultural effort put into place by law to try to counteract the changes that happening in the society.

Flappers

It was a term given to the women of the 1920s were defying the cultural standards nailed it a Victorianism. They became significant as a cultural phenomenon in the 1920s. young women in that decade were engaged in a rebellion against the cultural standards of Victorianism.

They cut their hair as a freedom, they were makeup, smoke. All of these was shocking to older Americans. They were more liberate in their sexuality.

Women could not really mobilize for the next step of achieving equal civil rights until they broke through there cultural ideas about their own behavior.

Paul was upset that the movement did not proceed in order in which she wanted it to.

Frances Perkins

She was the first women to hold a cabinet level job in the state of New York.

She had been a member of NY’s industrial commission a part of the state bureaucracy that oversaw labor conditions for workers in the state of NY. FDR put Perkins in charge of that industrial commission. When FDR got elected president in 1932, he asked Frances to come with him in DC and serves the United Stated secretary of Labor. She became the first female member of a president cabinet when she became FDR’S secretary of labor.

In the midst of the great depression, she helped draft legislative and then convince the male members of the house and the senate to pass that legislation.

In 1935 FDR signing of the social security act, including three different programs,

First was unemployment insurance

Second, interdependent children (help single mother)

Third, aid independent children (social security)

She also guided to passage the Wagner act in 1935. It the law the finally made unions legal in the US. she guided passage the fair labor act which passed the congress signed by FDR. It created a national minimum wage all most every worker it the country, it outlawed child labor under the age of 16. It also said if any employer has to pay overtime 50 % pay. The word weekend did not exist until the fair labor standards act.

She serves as secretary of labor until FDR’s death in 1945. She was one of only two cabinet secretaries to stay with him the whole time.

One agenda that she was not able to achieve was national Health care which was blocked by coalition of doctor’s hospitals and insurance company.