CH 1 - Intro to Women's Health Exam Questions and Answer 100% Correct

1874 - Elizabeth Blackwell in medical school 1948 - Seneca Falls, beginning of the women's rights movement : Civil War - ANSWER -Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton: organized nursing corps to care for wounded and sick, let to the first training school for nurses in 1873; females still subordinate to doctors Mid to late 1800s: The Women's Medical Movement - ANSWER -educational and employment opportunities increased; women's medical movement emerged with more education, wanting equal status in the profession, and challenging women's fragility 1890s-1920s: The Progressive Era - ANSWER -1920: 19th amendment: women's right to vote 1917: National Women's Party proposed equal rights amendment, remains unratified 1916: Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in Brooklyn and arrested; judge legalizes contraception but only to married couples The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921: increased availability of prenatal and child health care; lated until 1929 when funds were cut 1930s-1950s: WWII and Postwar Years - ANSWER -18 mil women employed by the end of the war, more pay, greater variety of positions; but encouraged to go back to housewife after war was over 1953: The Kinsey Report - marriage is not a preq for sex 1960s-1970s: The Grassroots Movement - ANSWER -addressed issues such as: unnecessary hysterectomies+C-sections, postpartum depression, abortion, and childbirth reform 1970: Our Bodies, Ourselves - guide to women's bodies 1960: FDA approves birth control 1964: Title VII - protects women against employment discrimination 1972: Title IX - qual funding in athletic programs for universities Became more inclusive 1980s: Changing Public Policy - ANSWER -1980s: US Public Health Service's Task Force est inclusion of women in biomedical research 1990s: Office of Research on Women's Health