American activist organization (founded 1966) that promotes equal rights for women.
What is NOW?
100
Title IX is a law passed in _____.
What is 1972?
100
The Equal Rights Amendment states that the rights guaranteed by the Constitution: “We the People of the United States” apply equally to all persons regardless of their ___.
What is gender?
200
The financial gap between women and men pay rates.
What is the Gender Wage Gap?
200
John F Kennedy signed the ____ ____ ___, which required that men and women be paid the same amount of money for the same work performed.
What is Equal Pay Act
200
Main founder of NOW.
Who is Betty Friedan?
200
There are __ key areas addressed by this law, and sports is one of them.
What is 10?
200
After the 19th Amendment affirming women’s ___ __ ____ was approved in 1920?
What is right to vote?
300
In 1960, the world of American women was limited in almost every respect, from family life to the workplace.
What is Gender Inequality?
300
The first female selected into the House of Representatives was _____.
What is Jeanette Rankin
300
Education, employment and other women's issues.
What are the forces fought against by NOW?
300
The principal objective of the Title IX is to avoid the use of federal money to support _______________ in education programs and to provide individual citizens effective protection against those practices.
What is Gender Discrimination?
300
Suffragist leader ___ introduced the ERA in 1923 as the next step in bringing "equal justice under law" to all citizens.
What is Alice Paul?
400
The federal government in 1960 approved a birth control pill. This freed many women from unwanted pregnancy and gave them many more choices, and ____, in their personal lives.
What is freedom
400
____ ____ became the first female speaker in the U.S. House of Representatives.
What is Nancy Pelosi
400
In 1966, 1,000 women had joined; ___ years later membership reached 15,000.
What is four?
400
There are ___ key areas addressed by this law (equal rights to higher education, career education, education for pregnant and parenting students, employment.
What is 10?
400
Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment between 1972 and 1982 lobbied, marched, rallied, petitioned, picketed, went on hunger strikes, and committed acts of civil ____ for constitutional equality in the United States.
What is disobedience?
500
By the end of the Sixties, more than 80 percent of wives of childbearing age were using contraception after the federal government in 1960 approved a ___ ___ ___.
What is birth control pill
500
In the year ___ the Equal Rights Amendment was passed
What is 1972
500
This woman was a legendary feminist, famous for her work with NOW and her newspaper column “My Day.”
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
500
There were virtually no college scholarships for female athletes. And females college athletes received only __ percent of overall athletic budgets.
What is two?
500
In the __ ______ ____ the federal government and all states have passed considerable legislation protecting the legal rights of women.