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The 1977 Greenbelt Movement was started to combat climate change in Kenya. The movement has been credited with planting over 35 million trees throughout the continent of Africa. Who is responsible for leading this movement?
Wangari Muta Maathai
Highlights the special, unique qualities of women, and the importance of intuitive, non-rational aspects of human experience, describes what type of feminism?
Cultural Feminism
Approximately 11,000 military women, mostly volunteers served as nurses to support this American war. Some women also worked as physicians, air traffic controllers, intelligence officers, and clerks during what 1954-75 conflict?
Vietnam War
Founded in 1866, this organization was formed to “secure Equal Rights to all American citizens.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony worked with what organization to advocate for the 16th amendment, giving women the right to vote?
American Equal Rights Association (AERA)
What is the 1st Wave of Feminism?
The Suffrage Movement
(The Suffrage Movement focused on legal issues, and primarily on gaining the right to vote.)
The speech, “Ain’t I A Woman” was given by an African American evangelist, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist at the 1851 Ohio Women’s Rights Convention to advocate for equal rights for black women. Who is the author of this speech?
Sojourner Truth
Redistributes power through the transformation of economic structures describes what type of feminism?
Socialist Feminism
As a soldier and spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, this former slave became the first woman to lead an armed military operation in the United States in what is known as the Combahee Ferry Raid. Who is this American abolitionist and political activist?
Harriet Tubman
A multi-issue, multi-strategy organization that takes a holistic approach to women’s rights. What organization strives to secure an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will guarantee equal rights for women, provide reproductive freedom, and fight bigotry against the LGBTQIA community?
National Organization for Women NOW)
What is Misogyny?
Dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women
Battling gender discrimination since the 1970s, and known for the Frontiero vs. Richardson case that proved that a woman in the U.S. Air Force did not have to prove that her husband was a dependent in order to receive benefits. This U.S Supreme Court Justice became the second woman to serve in this capacity. Who is she
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Promotes the importance of critical thinking and shares the idea that men and women have the same rights to make productive individual choices, describes what type of feminism?
Liberal Feminism
Known as the Red Army during World War II, what country specifically trained women in combat functions such as aviation, infantry, and as snipers?
Founded with the single mission of closing the gender gap in technology by creating a pipeline for future female engineers. What organization is expected to achieve gender parity in computer science by 2027?
Girls Who Code
What is mansplaining?
Describes the condescending or sexist way men explain things to women
Brutally attacked for speaking out about girl’s rights to learn, this Pakistani activist for female education became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in 2014. Who is this human rights activist?
Malala Yousafzai
Believes that social transformation can only be accomplished through social activism and the dramatic altercation of cultural values, describes what type of feminism?
Radical Feminism
The actions of these Soldiers changed the role of women in aviation. Who were the first brave women to fly an American military aircraft?
Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs)
As a global champion for women’s causes, what organization works to ensure the equal participation of women in governing systems, the economy, that they are free from violence, and are part of the conversation to build sustainable peace?
United Nations Women (UN Women)
What is Feminism?
The advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.
As the co-founder of the United Farm Workers, and the creator of The Feminist Majority project, this Mexican American advocated for increased Latina representation in politics throughout the U.S. Who is this Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient?
Dolores Huerta
Shares with cultural feminism a preference for standpoint theories that seek to transform the topics of research, the manner in which studies are conducted, and the nature of researcher-participant relationships, describes what type of feminism?
Radical Feminism
In 2014, Secretary of the Army, John M. McHugh signed a ground-breaking directive that permitted what changes in the Army?
Authorized more opportunities for women to serve in a wider range of roles that were previously closed to women.
Founded in 2001, this international nonprofit organization engages women globally to end cycles of structural, psychological, and physical violence. What organization brings impactful stories to the world, while influencing policy on all levels?
Women Without Borders (WwB)
What are the four main theories in the 2nd wave of Feminism?
Liberal-Legal system; Cultural-Social Transformation; Radical-Patriarchal gender relations; Social-comprehensive analysis of oppression