Key Concepts
A system in which men hold primary power in society.
What is the patriarchy?
She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, sparking the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The 'first wave' of feminism focused primarily on achieving this legal right for women.
What is women's suffrage?
This subgenre focuses on messy, toxic, and often questionable love stories, as well as explores themes of violence, abuse, and trauma
What is dark romance?
The 2017 movement originating in Hollywood that spread globally to address workplace sexual harassment.
What is the MeToo Movement?
This term describes traditional, restrictive expectations of how men should behave.
What is toxic masculinity?
She was the first woman to run for US President on a major party ticket.
Who is Hillary Clinton?
Fourth-wave feminism is strongly linked to this digital phenomenon that amplifies feminist activism online.
What was the MeToo Movement?
This term describes how societies were designed with men at the center.
This Swedish teenager's climate activism highlighted how environmental issues disproportionately affect women and girls globally.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
Treating someone as an object rather than a full person.
What is objectification?
She is most famous for her pioneering work as a lawyer and Supreme Court Justice, advocating for gender equality and women's rights
Who was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
The second wave of feminism, emerging in the 1960s–70s, expanded its focus to include workplace rights and this landmark issue.
Whare are reproducitve rights?
Name two of the most common Jobs for a woman to hold in the medical field
Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, OBGYN, Midwives, Pediatricians
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate, advocated for girls' education in this country
What is Pakistan?
This concept describes how race, gender, and class overlap to create unique systems of discrimination.
What is intersectionality?
First woman to win a Nobel Prize, she won in both Physics and Chemistry.
Who is Marie Curie?
This amendment granted American women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Women made up this percentage in this year's Oscar nominations.
What is 33%?
This country was the first to grant women the right to vote nationally, in 1893.
What is New Zealand?
This term describes the invisible barrier preventing women from advancing to top professional positions.
What is the glass ceiling?
This woman co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
The third wave, starting in the 1990s, embraced this philosophy, celebrating individual women's choices.
What is individualism?
This is a concept in which women’s products will be significantly more impacted by the tariffs than men’s.
Pink tariffs
Internationally womens day has existed since this date.
What is 1911?