Answer Key. Chapter 23, Section 2. GUIDED READING. A. Possible answers: 1. Workplace: Widespread wage and job discrimination awakened many women to th...
Answer Key Chapter 23, Section 2 GUIDED READING A. Possible answers: 1. Workplace: Widespread wage and job discrimination awakened many women to their inferior social status. 2. Activism: Discrimination that women faced within the civil rights and antiwar movements awakened them to their unequal treatment. 3. Consciousness-raising: Helped women to discover that their personal experiences were part of a larger pattern of discrimination 4. Feminism: Provided a theory for the movement 5. Friedan: Encouraged women to organize and take action 6. Act: Gave women legal tools to fight discrimination 7. NOW: Actively pursued the movement’s social and political goals 8. Ms: Informed women about the women’s movement 9. Congress: Banned gender discrimination in educational and other activities supported by federal funds; expanded the EEOC’s enforcement powers; gave working parents tax breaks for child-care expenses 10. Court: In Roe v. Wade, recognized women’s right to have an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy B. Possible answers: 1. Who: Conservative political and religious groups; antifeminists; Phyllis Schafly; the Stop-ERA campaigns 2. Why: Antifeminism; fears that it would lead to the drafting of women, the end of laws protecting homemakers, and same-sex marriages; fears about its impact on families; fear that it would end a husband’s responsibility to provide for his family