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praCtiCing historical thinking

Identify: What is Schlafly’s argument against the Equal Rights Amendment?

Analyze: How is her argument a product of the women’s rights movement of the

early twentieth century?

Evaluate: To what extent does Schlafly’s argument reflect a conservative response

to the liberal reforms of the 1960s?

Schlafly: I believe in equal pay for equal work. I do not believe in hiring unquali-

fied women over qualified men to remedy some alleged oppression of 25 years ago.

Q: Do you think that people are being forced to hire this way?

Schlafly: Yes, we had a good example of that recently in a federal court, a ruling

that has ordered the Chicago Police Department to hire 16 percent women, on a

quota. Now in order to do this they have got to throw out the physical qualifica-

tions that are required to be a policeman on the Chicago police force. And I feel

this is absolutely wrong.

It’s hurtful to men, it’s hurtful to women and it’s hurtful to the community.

And it will do nothing but demoralize and destroy the police force.

Q: You think the women will not be able to perform the job as well as men?

Schlafly: That’s correct. The same thing’s true in the military. There is an hon-

orable place for women in the military. They have the best of both worlds in the

military today. They are protected from combat service and from some of the

dangerous and unpleasant jobs in the military.

Interview from The Washington Post, January 18, 1976. © 1976 Washington Post Company.

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States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or transmission of this Content without express

written permission is prohibited.

applying ap® historical thinking Skills

Skill Review Historical Causation, Use of Relevant Evidence,

Interpretation, and Synthesis

Read the passage below, and consider the following prompt:

Choose three documents above that express sentiments that helped give rise to the

New Right as Lisa McGirr describes them below. Justify each of your choices with

specific references to the history of the 1960s and 1970s. You may use your text-

book and class notes to help you answer this question.

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