Women’s Rights in the Workforce in the 1980s

Connection Between Women’s Rights in the Workforce and the Women’s Rights Movement within the 1980s

Presenter: Amanda Duprel

Presenter Status: Undergraduate student

Academic Year: 20-21

Semester: Spring

Faculty Mentor: Beth Ann Turner

Department: Art

Funding Source/Sponsor: SYRCE Symposium

Screenshot URL: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1QAPBr_yaMzukd9ur2Cs6e3aXxljG6GKg

Abstract:
For this project I decided to dive deeper into how the women's rights movement and women's rights in the workplace are connected in the 1980's. Many women stood up for their rights to have good jobs and be able to do the jobs that men could do. There was a big stigma that women should not be working and that they could only do secretarial jobs or be stay at home moms, but that all changed when women started to stand up for their rights. Many protests were held during the '80s and I will be bringing forth a few that really stood out to me and that I believe others should know about.