Appendix H
Student Name
ETH/125
Due Date
Instructor’s Name

Site Image Thoughts
National Organization for Women
This site is dedicated to the women’s rights movement, covering such issues as ending sex discrimination, stopping violence against women, promoting diversity, and ending racism. I was very pleased to find this movement covers such a wide variety of issues we face in today’s society.
American Civil Liberties Union
This site is dedicated to an America free of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This means an America where GLBT people can live openly, where their identities, relationships and families are respected, and where there is fair treatment on the job, in schools, housing, public places, health care, and government programs.

Appendix H
• What has been the status of women in the United States throughout history?
Throughout history American women have been subjected to such stereotypes that they are the weaker sex and are incapable of performing work that requires physical labor or intellectual reasoning. The attitude toward women was that their primary purpose in life was to have children and tend to household chores. Traditionally American women learned from their mothers to cook, clean, and tend to the children. Scholastic testing created in the 1960’s showed that girls scored much higher in early grades, but once they reached high school their grades were significantly lower. The reasoning behind this was that girls’ own expectations declined because neither their families nor their teachers expected them to prepare for a future other than that of marriage and motherhood. In the last century attitudes toward the higher education of women has changed dramatically. College enrollment of women has increased from a mere fifth of college students in 1870 to over half of college students in 1985.