WW2026FinalExamReview

1 Final Exam Date, Thursday, May 7 COME EARLIER: 10:30 am - 1:15 pm Final Exam Review Exam will be structured like the midterm Identify the significance of the work of any three. Three to four sentences. Pauli Murray Eleanor Holmes Norton Aileen Clarke Hernandez Phyllis Wallace Ruth Bader Ginsburg Bernice Sandler Edith Barksdale‐Sloan Josephine “Jo” Hulett Cynthia Long - Film - Triangle Fire: A Deadly Factory Accident in New York PBS What factors explain the big impact of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire? Why were the girls well known? What had been their struggles? How did that particular day and the area in which the factory was located ensure a large and influential audience for the fire? Why was this widespread witnessing important? Why did the Triangle Fire have a national impact on federal legislation during Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential administration? Discuss the roles of Frances Perkins and Robert Wagner. -- Film - Freedom Bags (Available Online through Mason Libraries) http://mutex.gmu.edu/login?url=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/freedom-bags What does a freedom bag signify? Why was it significant for maids? Discuss three ways employers disrespected these maids? What constraints did maids face who wanted to quit their job? - Eileen Boris and Premilla Nadasen. “Domestic workers organize!” WorkingUSA 11, no. 4 (2008): 413-437. https://research-ebsco-com.mutex.gmu.edu/c/3d43x4/viewer/pdf/j4zxb5esu5?route=details.

2 Discuss the difference in the physical sites that Black southern women like Dorothy Bolden and immigrant women of the 1990s used for beginning organizational efforts. What accounts for this difference? For immigrant women domestic workers why are organizing strategies more specific to identities of race, culture, ethnicity, gender and family? Describe the labor law protections and how domestic workers were excluded from labor law protection? -National Labor Relations Act, 1935 -Social Security, 1935. Greater incorporation in 1950 but little compliance -Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938 (1974 - covers workers in private homes, but no overtime for live in care workers. 2015 - extend protection to all “direct care workers” employed by home care agencies and other third parties.) -Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (discrimination and harassment) -Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970 See also “Domestic Workers and Labor Law: https://passi.us/2021/02/domestic-workers-and- labor-law/ - Film - Through the Night, a film by Loira Limbal http://mutex.gmu.edu/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=96306&xtid =273963 Deloris (Nunu) Hogan, head of Dee’s Tots Daycare Marisol Valencia - children: Diana (almost 13) and Yvette Shanona Tate - children: Naima and Noah What are the compromises women often make to their physical and mental health as they try to balance employment, childcare, time with their children, and leisure? What are the positive contributions of Nunu and Pop Pop Hogan in the lives of women worker families they serve? Why is it important to know their story? How was Marisol Valencia’s store manager particularly insensitive in giving her advice about her family arrangements?.

3 - MacLean, “Women Challenge Jane Crow,” Freedom Is Not Enough, 117-154 How did Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party criticize the draft bill of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act before the category of sex was included? How did Representative Howard Smith of Virginia and lawyer and Civil Rights leader Pauli Murray differ in their advocacy for the inclusion of sex in Title VII? Know about these pivotal cases of Title VII that pried open the gender system, and undermined the male breadwinner model: 1966, airline “stewardess” suit 1967 Alice Peurala, US Steel, South Works, won 1969 -1974, United Steelworkers of America (nine largest steel producers) consent decree 1968 segregation of employment ads (crowding effect) 1966 Lorena Weeks v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co..., won in 1969 -1969 AT&T consent decree, in 1973 1986 Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson Michelle Vinson’s lawsuit against Sidney L. Taylor Why did the 1971 Comprehensive Child Development Act fail to become law? - Film - The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter How does the documentary overturn Rosie the Riveter stereotypes about women workers? How did racism and sexism affect or motivate the women of the documentary. How does their fate in not being able to keep their jobs speak to what we’ve learned about women, race and the gender pay gap? - MacLean, “The Lonesomeness of Pioneering,” Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace, 265-299. Why were the craft jobs attractive to women? What accounts for the high level of violence against women? Describe the kinds of mental and physical hostility they faced? How was the abuse worse for Black women?.

4 Harlem’s Fight Back (James Haughton) Besides the horrendous violence they faced, what were some political, economic and structural reasons that worked against women entering and staying in the trades? - Film - Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City How was the New York City fire department different from departments in other cities when it came to implementing equality measures? Why was Brenda Berkman so hated? In 1978, women took the physical component of 3040 exam for the first time. Why was the exam controversial? Why was it obvious that the firing of Brenda Berkman and Zaida Gonzalez in 1983 was an attack of retaliation? What kinds of violence did the women face? Role of the Vulcan Society - Film - Rape on the Night Shift Why is the sexual abuse of night shift janitors one of the most under-reported crimes? Why are abusers seldom charged criminally? Why should ABM never have hired, Jose Vasquez? What role did Debbi Tannock of SMS allow Marco Gonzalez to play in the case that Leticia Zuniga brought against the company? How did he take it further? Role of Lilia Garcia-Brower and the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund - Film - Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution How did Camp Jened sow the seed for the Disability Rights Movement? What lessons did they learn there? What issues did they discuss? How did the culture of the Bay area support their efforts for inclusion during the 504 sit-in movement? What was Judy Heumann’s reaction to the “separate but equal” proposal from Sec. Califano’s representative, Eugene Eidenberg?.

5 How were the rights activists able to get national attention needed to force Califano to approve the 504 regulations? Role of reporter Evan White. Contribution of Dennis Billups in the 504 movement. - Pay Gap; Discrimination Against Muslim Women, Queer Women, Elderly women; AI Discrimination; and AI and the Environment. From these last short articles of the semester, compose an essay about what you see are the challenges that the near future holds for women workers. What policy solutions do you think are most promising for bringing women workers across their diversity into dignified and rewarding labor?.