Background

• Colonial period - Abagail Adams and her letter to her husband John Adams - "Remember the ladies"
• Seneca Falls Convention - (1848), Declaration of Rights and Sentiments
• WWI - More women entered the workforce
• 19th Amendment - (1920) Allowed women to vote
• Roaring 20's - Flapper, Modern woman
• WWII - More women entering into industrial professions
• 50's - Time of conformity, back to traditional values
• Feminine Mystique - (1963) Betty Friedan