{"id":99,"date":"2007-05-14T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2007-05-14T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T18:00:00","slug":"fun-with-feminism-a-pop-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/05\/14\/fun-with-feminism-a-pop-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Feminism: A Pop Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think You Know About Feminism in 2007? Test Your IQ<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Betty Friedan was:<\/span><\/p>\n

A. A pin-up model from the 1940s
B. The mother of American cookbooks
C. A columnist for McCall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s
D. The founder of the National Organization for Women
E. Author of The Feminine Mystique<\/span>

2. In 2007, for every dollar a man earns, a woman earns:<\/span><\/p>\n

A. the same
B. 84 cents
C. 77 cents
D. 56 cents<\/p>\n

3. During the Miss America Protest of 1968, radical feminists did all but which of the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

A. Crowned a live sheep \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Miss America\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
B. Burned their bras
C. Threw aprons and high heels into a Freedom Trashcan
D. Sprayed Toni home permanent spray inside the convention hall

4. In 2007, women make up what percent of the U.S. Senate?<\/span><\/p>\n

A. 3%
B. 16%
C. 33%
D. 50%<\/p>\n

5. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Postfeminist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is:<\/span><\/p>\n

A. A term coined in 1919 by a group of literary radicals in Greenwich Village who rejected the feminism of their mothers one year before women won the right to vote
B. A term used in the 1980s to describe an era in which feminism was deemed unhip and unnecessary
C. A media-hyped label that irritates third-wave feminists more than Adam Corolla
D. All of the above

6. The Real Hot 100 is:<\/span><\/p>\n

A. A new reality tv show
B. A list of the hottest women according to Maxim magazine
C. A campaign to redefine hotness by refiguring the standards to honor guts and not just glam
D. Hot sauce

7. The Equal Rights Amendment was introduced in:<\/span><\/p>\n

A. 1923
B. 1942
C. 1969
D. 1971<\/p>\n

8. In 2007, what percent of tenured professors at PhD-granting universities are women?
<\/span>
A. 7%
B. 16%
C. 20%
D. 50%

9. Title IX is:<\/span><\/p>\n

A. The name of Britney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favorite club in NYC
B. A piece of pro-woman legislation passed in 1972 now under attack
C. The name of a secret feminist cult
D. The sister band of L7<\/p>\n

10. In 2007, what percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women?
<\/span>
A. 2.6%
B. 15%
C. 26%
D. 50%<\/p>\n

11. BUST is:<\/span><\/p>\n

A. A girlie magazine for men
B. A grrly magazine \u00e2\u20ac\u0153for women with something to get off their chest\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
C. A boxing move popularized by Laila Ali
D. A West Coast rapper<\/p>\n

ANSWERS:<\/span>
1 – C, D, and E, 2 – C, 3 – B, 4 – B, 5 – D, 6 – C, 7 – A, 8 – C, 9 – B, 10 – A, 11 – B<\/p>\n

SCORE YOURSELF<\/span>
11-8 = Superstar!
7-4 = Semi-superstar
3-0 = Hit the books, my friend. You got catching up to do.<\/p>\n

Based on Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild (available from Palgrave, June 12, 2007)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Think You Know About Feminism in 2007? Test Your IQ 1. Betty Friedan was: A. A pin-up model from the 1940sB. The mother of American cookbooksC. A columnist for McCall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122sD. The founder of the National Organization for WomenE. Author of The Feminine Mystique2. In 2007, for every dollar a man earns, a woman earns: A. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,21804],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-intergenerational","tag-sisterhood-is"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}