Complete Clue List
Across
1. Betty Friedan founded this organization in 1966, hoping for immediate change? (acronym)
4. "...Notorious" nickname of feminist personage in 6 Down
7. Muslim authorities disagree on whether women can lead worship as an ____ (but they do so anyhow).
9. FDR's New Deal created ____ to Dependent Children in 1935 so that single mothers could stay home
10. This Western state ratified the ERA in 1972, but tried to rescind in 1977 (abbr.)
12. The women's lib movement of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s is also called "Second-____ Feminism".
15. Mae West's risqué "I'm ___ Angel" (1930) led to a period of self-censorship in Hollywood
16. To empower to vote
19. English's only definite article
20. Common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) alt. name, first half only of 2 repeated words
21. If a tigress mates with a lion, she'll produce a litter of these.
23. Before Rebecca Felton took over her late husband's seat in 1922, how many women had been Senators?
24. _____ S. Buck was the first U.S. woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1938.
27. Ethel Gant's 1959 invention of panty ____ "liberated" women from pesky garter belts.
28. A country with one of the highest levels of female political representation: Costa ___
29. "Eureka!" This abbreviated state becomes the first to allow divorce by mutual consent, in 1969!
30. Alice Paul and ____ Burns formed the National Woman's Party in 1913.
Down
1. Amendment which enfranchised U.S. women
2. This "cheesy" abbreviated Midwestern state ratified the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972.
3. Sen. Joe Biden co-sponsored this 1994 landmark law re intimate-partner and sexual abuse (acronym)
5. In 1904, Helen Keller becomes the first deafblind person to earn this degree.
6. Supreme Court Justice who earlier founded the Women's Rights Project of the ACLU
8. Wilma ____ became the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1985.
11. Hazel O'Leary was the 1st black and 1st woman to head this Cabinet department, in 1993 (abbr.)
13. This guerilla force (abbr.) used far more women than did the US military during the Vietnam War.
14. Canadian interjection?
17. This "granite" New England state ratified the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972 as well.
18. A European word for women's liberation that did not cross U.S. shores until 1910
22. A 3rd-wave feminist punk (and punny) movement from the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s: Riot _____.
25. American actress appointed an ambassador for US Fund for UNICEF: Lucy ___
26. Journalist and anarchist Dorothy ___ founded the Catholic Worker Movement in the 1930s.
29. A duplicate, be it email or messy blue ink (abbr.)