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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Military Women

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the history of female participation in the armed forces and throughout various conflicts. They participate in a class discussion and consider many of the controversial issues surrounding women in the military.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Her Day in Court Women Judges and Justice in Washington State

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the history of women in the legal profession in Washington. They define the vocabulary of sex discrimination and identify barriers women faced in becoming lawyers and judges.
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Primary
Other

Early Documents: Now Statement of Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source document is the statement of purpose for the National Organization for Women, established in 1966.
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Article
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: What Administration Is Saying About Trans Students

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the Obama administration's directive to public schools on how to be inclusive and non-discrimitative to transgender students.
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Handout
Digital History

Digital History: Feminism Reborn

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive survey of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s documents women and politics, women's wages, legal discrimination against women, stereotypes of women, women's rights legislation, and women's rights...
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Handout
Other

Eeoc: Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information about job discrimination. There is a lot of useful information at this site including information about religious accommodation, sex discrimination, and more.
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Handout
Other

Aclu: Women's Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource contains a summary of the role of the ACLU in gaining women's rights in a variety of areas. Informative timeline is available.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: The Supreme Court and Sex Discrimination

For Students 9th - 10th
From the responsibility of all work places to demonstrate no discrimination towards women in 1971 to Roe v. Wade in 1973, find the journey women took to the U.S. Supreme Court for sex discrimination.
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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Ruth Bader Ginsberg

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female U.S. Supreme Court justice.
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eBook
Digital History

Digital History: The Equal Rights Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1972, Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution. The ERA subsequently failed to be ratified by the necessary number of states and was never added to the Constitution.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Equal Pay Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts on the 1963 Equal Pay Act that established equal pay for equal work among men and women.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: National Organization for Women (Now)

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Organization for Women (NOW) was established in 1966 to promote equal rights, including equality of opportunity for women in employment.
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Article
Seymour Brody

Jewish Heroes in America: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has biographical information about the second woman to serve as a Justice of The U.S. Supreme Court.