The experience of women in the revolution has influenced heavily both men’s and women’s attitudes toward women, especially regarding women’s work and leadership capacities. Women look back upon the revolution as a time of awakening. (One woman relates that) “when the Frente Sandinista began…women also within the lines…fought the role of men; that is when the women realized that we can work the same as a man, that we can develop equally as a man…They were heroines. They showed us, they gave us really an idea that the women in the world, in life, can work, can be equal to a man in work.
a. Identify and explain one historically specific example of women’s roles during the period 1900 to the present that would support the author’s argument.
b. Identify and explain one historically specific example of women’s roles in the period BEFORE 1900 that would support the author’s argument.
c. Identify and explain one development in the late 20th century that likely explains the historian’s interest in the subject of the passage.
