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=FRQ: How did women's role change from 1950s to 1960s?=

Jason: [[file:JASON FRQ.docx]]
I think you need to improve the tone of the essay. It's a bit too informal for an FRQ.

We provided for you all the key terms you needed in the essay. However you used none! Where's The Feminine Mystique? Where's the Civil Rights Act? You should mention specific events, acts, and people that influenced 1950's and 1960's women, not just generalize on their situations.

Your compare and contrast was great and you addressed both the 1950's and 1960's adequately. Just work on incorporating specific facts. Overall, 80/100

Keunwha Song [[file:keunwha song frq word.doc]]
Feedback: 94/100 Good Organization; Mentioned Important people & books; Good reference to the time before the war; more details about certain characteristics such as baby boom would be great; I felt that you lack the reasons why their roles changed. what really led to the change in women's status? What caused women to go back to their household in 1950s? What caused them to fight for their status in 1960s?-- But overall, organization was great, and it showed that you clearly knew about the topic. Great job:)



**RUBRIC**
A thourough essay should wholly address the question, reflecting both the motherhood in the 1950's and general liberation of women in the 1960's. SHOULD mention when addressing the 50's.

-World War II -Baby Boom -Suburbia -Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care -Womens liberation -Civil Rights and Anti-war Protests -The Feminine Mystique -1964 Civil Rights Act -National Organization for Women (NOW) -Equal Pay Act 1963
 * Key Terms**

SUBURBIA = MOTHERS End of World War meant return to the home and to the role of a wife and mother Women were getting married and starting large families at a younger age Women couldn’t pursue professional careers with family obligations
 * Powerpoint Material**

HOUSEKEEPING Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby and Child Care became popular during the Baby Boom McCall’s and Good Housekeeping Magazine gave latest styles in housekeeping and interior design.

WOMEN"S LIBERATION (1960) By the end of the 1950’s, less women were enrolled in college than in the 1920’s With civil rights and anti-war protests, women began to realize their unequal status in the household

RISE OF FEMINISM Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine mystique and called the home a “comfortable concentration camp”, saying that women were losing their identities.

CHANGE THROUGH LAW 1964 Civil Rights Act made it illegal to discriminate employment based on gender Filed for equal wages and day care for children (Equal Pay Act 1963) Attacked laws banning abortion and toughened

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN (NOW) 1966 led by the writer of The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan Moderate group that faced criticism from extreme feminists like Ti-Grace Atkinson

= = =Primary Sources=

1950s:

 * The Good Housewife**
 * The following is excerpted from an actual 1950's high school Home Economics textbook:**
 * ADVANCE: How to be a Good Wife**
 * HAVE DINNER READY: Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal--on time. This is a way to let him know that you have been thinking about him and are concerned with his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home, and having a good meal ready is part of the warm welcome that is needed.**
 * PREPARE YOURSELF: Take fifteen minutes to rest so that you will be refreshed when he arrives. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people. Be a little gay and a little more interesting. His boring day may need a lift. Greet him with a smile.**
 * CLEAR AWAY THE CLUTTER: Make one last trip though the main part of the house just before your husband arrives, gathering up children's books and toys, papers, etc. Then run a dust cloth over the tables. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you lift too.**
 * PREPARE THE CHILDREN: If they are small, wash their hands and faces and comb their hair. They are his little treasures and he would like to see them playing the part.**
 * MINIMIZE ALL NOISE: At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise from the washer, dryer, or vacuum. Encourage the children to be quiet.**
 * SOME "DO NOT'S": Don't greet him with problems and complaints. Don't complain if he is late for dinner. Count this as a minor problem compared to what he might have gone through that day.**
 * MAKE HIM COMFORTABLE: Have a cool or warm drink ready for him. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or suggest that he lie down in the bedroom. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing voice. Allow him to relax and unwind.**
 * LISTEN TO HIM: You may have a dozen things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first.**
 * MAKE THE EVENING HIS: Never complain if he doesn't take you to dinner or to other entertainment. Instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure and his need to unwind and relax.**
 * THE GOAL: TO MAKE YOUR HOME A PLACE OF PEACE AND ORDER WHERE YOUR HUSBAND CAN RELAX IN BODY AND SPIRIT.**

"The Problem that Has No Name"
**Betty Friedan**

If a woman had a problem in the 1950's and 1960's, she knew that something must be wrong with her marriage, or with herself. Other women were satisfied with their lives, she thought. What kind of a woman was she if she did not feel this mysterious fulfillment waxing the kitchen floor? She was so ashamed to admit her dissatisfaction that she never knew how many other women shared it. If she tried to tell her husband, he didn't understand what she was talking about. She did not really understand it herself. For over fifteen years women in America found it harder to talk about the problem than about sex. Even the psychoanalysts had no name for it. When a woman went to a psychiatrist for help, as many women did, she would say, "I'm so ashamed," or "I must be hopelessly neurotic." "I don't know what's wrong with women today," a suburban psychiatrist said uneasily. "I only know something is wrong because most of my patients happen to be women. And their problem isn't sexual." Most women with this problem did not go to see a psychoanalyst, however. "There's nothing wrong really," they kept telling themselves, "There isn't any problem." But on an April morning in 1959, I heard a mother of four, having coffee with four other mothers in a suburban development fifteen miles from New York, say in a tone of quiet desperation, "the problem." And the others knew, without words, that she was not talking about a problem with her husband, or her children, or her home. Suddenly they realized they all shared the same problem, the problem that has no name. They began, hesitantly, to talk about it. Later, after they had picked up their children at nursery school and taken them home to nap, two of the women cried, in sheer relief, just to know they were not alone. [.....] How can any woman see the whole truth within the bounds of her own life? How can she believe that voice inside herself, when it denies the conventional, accepted truths by which she has been living? And yet the women I have talked to, who are finally listening to that inner voice, seem in some incredible way to be groping through to a truth that has defied the experts. I think the experts in a great many fields have been holding pieces of that truth under their microscopes for a long time without realizing it. I found pieces of it in certain new research and theoretical developments in psychological, social and biological science whose implications for women seem never to have been examined. I found many clues by talking to suburban doctors, gynecologists, obstetricians, child-guidance clinicians, pediatricians, high-school guidance counselors, college professors, marriage counselors, psychiatrists and ministers-questioning them not on their theories, but on their actual experience in treating American women. I became aware of a growing body of evidence, much of which has not been reported publicly because it does not fit current modes of thought about women--evidence which throws into question the standards of feminine normality, feminine adjustment, feminine fulfillment, and feminine maturity by which most women are still trying to live. I began to see in a strange new light the American return to early marriage and the large families that are causing the population explosion; the recent movement to natural childbirth and breastfeeding; suburban conformity, and the new neuroses, character pathologies and sexual problems being reported by the doctors. I began to see new dimensions to old problems that have long been taken for granted among women: menstrual difficulties, sexual frigidity, promiscuity, pregnancy fears, childbirth depression, the high incidence of emotional breakdown and suicide among women in their twenties and thirties, the menopause crises, the so-called passivity and immaturity of American men, the discrepancy between women's tested intellectual abilities in childhood and their adult achievement, the changing incidence of adult sexual orgasm in American women, and persistent problems in psychotherapy and in women's education. If I am right, the problem that has no name stirring in the minds of so many American women today is not a matter of loss of femininity or too much education, or the demands of domesticity. It is far more important than anyone recognizes. It is the key to these other new and old problems which have been torturing women and their husbands and children, and puzzling their doctors and educators for years. It may well be the key to our future as a nation and a culture. We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: "I want something more than my husband and my children and my home."


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