PSU Women's Resource Center Case Study

1-a) Women in African-American clubs in the early 20th century believed their role was to help the black race through the idea of racial upliftment. Uplift is the practice of economic and social self-help, where educated middle class club women taught working class black women how to improve their home life and education. This is achieved through concentrated social services work. Club’s such the National Association for Colored Women (NACW), the Tuskegee Woman’s Club and the Colored Women’s league held lectures that taught young girls virtues temperance and how to run needed community services. Club women such as Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells and Anna J. Cooper called for a “united black womanhood to solve the race’s problem” (Gray White,

Over the years, the groups for women have grown more widespread. Women still march for equal rights, equal pay, ect. Women were not treated equally to man, especially in the late 1800’s. “Women were still being denied public roles, rights, and responsibilities in the late 1800’s.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 1) Women could not have a public role such as, business man, mechanic, store owner, factory worker ect. The rights and responsibilities of women were also being denied. No one wanted women to be or even thought of as an equal to man. “Women’s attempts to work within the abolitionist movement of the 1830’s illustrated that they were not yet considered political equals of men.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 1) “In 1840, at the world Anti-Slavery Convention in London, women were sent to galleries and prohibited from participating.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 1) Women were not allowed to participate in any kind of public affiliation they were always sent off and prohibited from participating. “The early movement continued to address a variety of issues concerning women’s lives, including supporting the temperance movement in the late 1800’s.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 1) “In 1875, the NWSA suffered a setback when the Supreme Court ruled that suffrage was not a privilege granted by the Fourteenth Amendment, which guaranteed the rights of free man.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 2) “Finally, after having been introduced every year to Congress beginning in 1878, the Nineteenth Amendment, the Woman Suffrage Amendment, was ratified on August 26, 1920.” (Credo Reference, Women’s Movement: An Overview pg. 2) Finally, in 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. Women could start being seen a little more as an equal, and not so much as a

One government program I found was the Federal Women’s Program led by Pamela Pavek. According to http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/wa/about/civilrights/?cid=nrcs144p2_036407 , “ The Federal Women’s Program (FWP) is a special emphasis program which was established in 1963 to enhance employment and advancement of women. Executive Order 11478, signed in 1969, brought the FWP into the overall Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Program and placed it under the stewardship of the Director of EEO.” This program is to ensure that women receive equal treatment in all areas of the workplace. Also, they providing counseling and promoting leadership in the workplace as well.

The National Organization for Women (NOW), a feminist organization, was formed in Washington, D.C. on June 30, 1966 (National Organization for Women [NOW], n.d.). It was established by twenty-eight women and led by Betty Friedan (NOW, n.d.). This group was created due to the discrimination and unfair treatment that women were facing as they moved from work in the home to public employment. NOW work to bring equality for women and “focuses on a broad range of women’s rights, including economic justice, pay equity, racial discrimination, women’s health and body image, women with disabilities, reproductive rights and justice, family law, marriage and family formation rights…” (NOW, n.d.). Their goal is to stop harassment and discrimination against women in society such as in the work force, schools, government,

Even though African American women have played vital roles in social justice movements, they are often overshadowed because of their gender. Only a few organizations like Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) gave more access for female leadership. But more often than none, women had informal positions of leadership.

I feel like I should make it my duty to empower women on campus with the same, and I believe Alliance for Women's Awareness can help me fulfill that goal. Moreover, in the near future, I would cherish the opportunity to become a Resident Assistant. I believe Resident Assistants are some of the best leaders on campus, therefore; I would love to follow their footsteps in developing leadership skills while constantly interacting with other students. Being a Resident Assistant is one of the best ways to develop and enhance character and leadership

The 150th anniversary of the founding of the Women’s Rights movement was celebrated in 1998, today women benefit from the tremendous positive changes brought about by this movement. These women empowered one another in promoting social change. The National Women’s History Project (NWHP) (1999) stated

I have had the pleasure of working with Josephine Pokua for nearly three years while she was a member of the Social Action Committee, then when she served as the chair of the Social Action Committee of the Black Action Society and rose to the rankings of Executive Secretary on the Executive Board of BAS. I served as the Social Action Chair when I first met Josephine. Then chose her to head the Social Action Committee when I became president. The Black Action Society (BAS) is the recognized student organization of the University of Pittsburgh for addressing the concerns, needs, and interests of Black students. The three major objectives of the Social Action Committee are academic excellence, community service, and socio-political activism.

Texas Women’s Empowerment Foundation is creating an urban garden that would use the joy of gardening to provide intergenerational and cross-cultural connections within a food desert with access to fresh fruits and vegetables and weekly physical activities using the joy of gardening. The program will promote positive behavioral changes that include better nutrition and increase physical activity among participants while teach entrepreneurship skills to the youth through the farmers’ market. In addition, the garden and market would be used to teach youth and low-income families gardening and entrepreneurial skills while also providing the low-income community to be served with regular access to fresh fruit and vegetables. TWEF will also provide

The project wishes to develop the 25 years old experience of paralegal women in an innovative way, through improving its methodology, expanding its approach and connecting by technology paralegal women, feminist lawyers and domestic violence's victims. Through a social network and an access qualified and centralized to information and empowerment, we believe that wiil be easier for a larger number of women toindentify based-gender opression and face it.

The university was founded in the 1800s, and was the first women’s college in the United States

With the changing demographics of UW Bothell, diversity and social issues today are increasingly being addressed by students. Current student participation is rising with established clubs and new clubs. The current club structure is connecting like-minded students who want to establish a space where they can help and educate others about what they deem important. These clubs have encouraged students to devote time to global and social issues that mirror localized activism.

Although Canada is an advanced country full of opportunities, it has yet to fight some of its largest issues. Women in Canada are still victims of gender inequality. Women have been facing a patriarchal stance in society for as long as they can remember, but it goes beyond just patriarchy. These women are living in conditions which could be viewed as inhumane. In 1991, The Canadian Women’s Foundation was formed and they took a stance enforcing women’s equality. Women face poverty, violence in various ways such as; physical, emotional, and financial, they are viewed nothing more than just sex objects used to sell products to the public, and women are discouraged from working at the same

The founding of the National Organization for Women, included a group of feminist women who established the National Organization for Women, also known as NOW. This organization was formed by not one woman, but by twenty-eight women who were willing

Every society in the history of mankind has assigned work by gender; without work done by each gender economies could not thrive. Chapter 12 of Hunter College Women’s and Gender Studies Collective fourth edition depicts the truth about inequality, discrimination in the workforce against women and how globalization overall effects women. As the Hunter College Women and Gender Studies Collective (HCWGSC, 2015) states, “…women complete more than two thirds of the world’s unpaid work.” (p. 350), this is an issue for women world-wide. Each culture has different values, roles, and social norms they follow, and this includes gender specific roles and jobs. There is more to work equality than feminism; status, race and value play a major role on equality