• In what year were women first allow to vote for president? Describe the circumstances surrounding this event. What surprised you the most about this movement?
• Cite the Equal Rights Amendment. Who wrote the amendment? Who supported its passage? Who was against it passing and why?
• In what year was the Equal Rights Amendment first introduced to Congress? In what year was it passed? What is the status of this amendment now?
• Figures show that today women in the U.S. earn how much for every dollar earned by men? How much do women throughout the world earn for every dollar earned by men? How do you account for this difference?
• What percentage of professors throughout the U.S. are women, how are they ranked (instructors, assistants, associates, full, tenured and non-tenured)? How do their salaries compare to those of their male colleagues?
• List and describe the work of five 19th century women speakers describing when and where they spoke, to whom they spoke, and their topics.
• List and describe the work of five 20th century women speakers describing the same as for the 19th century women.
• Who do you think is the most influential American woman alive today? Why? How has she escaped our reluctance to allow .a woman a place of importance and authority?
• Define the following: feminism, rhetoric, gender, femininity, masculinity, heterosexism, sex, hegemony, stereotypes, privilege, suffragists, civil rights, popular culture, misogynist, and empowerment. Add one word that you think is important to our study of the rhetoric of women.