POLISCI 395F Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Equal Rights Amendment, Ella Baker, Esther Peterson

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLISCI 395F
• Professor: Maryann Barbasko

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Americans but it also helped women and most importantly it helped african american women who were the most marginalized of the group. No, all women did not agree on how to address women"s oppression. Some women did not address the oppression at all because they did not feel as though they were being oppressed and they were completely content with their lives the way it was and their role has wives and mothers. The significance of the creation of the president"s commission of the status of women was that it was established by kennedy, it was established to appease women. It did not do much for the advancement of women"s rights which upset women because they realized that the. Commission wasn"t actually doing anything to advance their rights. Feminism is not alive and well, according to the book women men and us politics 10.