New Feminism

• Women still divided

  • Only two women senators
  • Limited consensus about aims and methods of second wave feminism
  • Insufficient attention to sexist language
  • Suffrage movement split
  • No agreement about ERA
• Women better represented in politics and education

  • 7 female senators in Congress by 1933
  • Half of university graduates were women by 1936
  • Women in positions of authority were no longer unusual
• What was still unappreciated in the 1980s

  The social implications of the achievement of the franchise