Question 1-A This source was written by Betty Friedan who wrote to signal a revival for the women’s movement. Betty Friedan was known to be an American housewife, writer, feminist, and a political activist during her time. When Friedan wrote about “The Problem That Has No Name” in 1963, it was part of a larger book Friedan classified as The Feminine Mystique. This book was a result of Friedan’s own experience regarding the workforce and maintaining a family. Supposedly, after Freidan graduated from college, she assumed the job title of a reporter. Shortly after, Friedan ended up marrying and having three children. She states that she quickly returns to the work force after the birth of her first child; however, her job let her go when she
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This forum involved five women as they sought to break down these issues and discover if there are any similarities and differences that can drive them to a conclusion on women in the workplace. Barbara Jones was the moderator of the forum and the senior editor of Harper’s Magazine, Anita Bair is the CEO of the Independent Women’s Forum (discussed women’s business issues) and co-founder of Welty & Blair (business-law practice), Barbara Ehrenreich is a political social critic and author, Arlie Hochschild is a professor of sociology and author, Jeanne Lewis is the senior vice president and retail marketer of Staples, and Elizabeth McKenna who is a former publisher and author (Jones, B., …show more content…
The goals of the FMLA was to essentially promote sex equality in the workplace, accommodate for individual work-family conflicts, and institute job security for employees not based on sex discrimination (Kim, 2004). This greatly impacted the women’s movement and came as a result because of it due to the desire for equality and the balance of work-family life. The FMLA sought to enable women to take maternity leave so that they could spend time with their child and help nurture them through the first weeks of their life. They were then given the security that their job would remain intact as they were gone and rejoin the company when the maternity leave was up. This act also enabled men the option to take a paternity leave if they so wish because of job security being provided. Family-work life was being balance as jobs id not threaten an employee’s position due to unforeseen circumstances and understood the demands at home and the demands at the workplace. The women’s movement during the making of modern America sought to fulfill the women role by exposing their potential to have equal rights in the work place, to give women the right to be something other than occupation: housewife, and changing traditional gendered care patterns (Kim,
This forum involved five women as they sought to break down these issues and discover if there are any similarities and differences that can drive them to a conclusion on women in the workplace. Barbara Jones was the moderator of the forum and the senior editor of Harper’s Magazine, Anita Bair is the CEO of the Independent Women’s Forum (discussed women’s business issues) and co-founder of Welty & Blair (business-law practice), Barbara Ehrenreich is a political social critic and author, Arlie Hochschild is a professor of sociology and author, Jeanne Lewis is the senior vice president and retail marketer of Staples, and Elizabeth McKenna who is a former publisher and author (Jones, B., …show more content…
The goals of the FMLA was to essentially promote sex equality in the workplace, accommodate for individual work-family conflicts, and institute job security for employees not based on sex discrimination (Kim, 2004). This greatly impacted the women’s movement and came as a result because of it due to the desire for equality and the balance of work-family life. The FMLA sought to enable women to take maternity leave so that they could spend time with their child and help nurture them through the first weeks of their life. They were then given the security that their job would remain intact as they were gone and rejoin the company when the maternity leave was up. This act also enabled men the option to take a paternity leave if they so wish because of job security being provided. Family-work life was being balance as jobs id not threaten an employee’s position due to unforeseen circumstances and understood the demands at home and the demands at the workplace. The women’s movement during the making of modern America sought to fulfill the women role by exposing their potential to have equal rights in the work place, to give women the right to be something other than occupation: housewife, and changing traditional gendered care patterns (Kim,