The east bay. Lets take a look from sutro tower. You can see some of the cloud cover slipping through and were waking up mostly clear inland and partly cloudy around the bay and the coast. Temperatures in the low to mid 50s and well stay in the 50s at the coast where we will eventually clear out of the clouds because the breezes will pick up. 69 to 73 with that quicker sunshine and the breeze will hold 72 to 78 and 50s and 60s if youre heading out this evening. More on that weekend heat coming up. First, heres reggie. Uc schools are moving ahead with their plans for the fall and according to the systems president , it looks like there are going to be classes held in person, at least sometimes. Because of the pandemic, our efforts here at abc7 to build a better bay area are focused on four key areas. That includes education. Ucs approach is different than another huge University System we have been following recently. Amy hollyfield live for us at uc berkeley this morning. Amy . Hi, goo
Finkbime, not her real name, the story was about a choice that her family was facing. She was pregnant. Her husband had recently travelled to europe where he acquired a drug called thalidimide. It had not been approved for use yet in the United States of america but it was available in many European Countries to treat a number of Different Things, anxiety, insomnia and nausea. Nausea here is key. So, women began taking it to aleve morning sickness. Sherrys husband had been in europe, he acquired these pills and brought them back home for her. Shes pregnant, she takes about 40 of them during early on in her pregnancy. She and her husband did not know that thalidomide causes birth defects. Then she read an article about the drug, found out more, and she called her doctor. She started to learn more about what thalidomide can do. For developing babies, children, thalidomide caused brain damage, damage to the eyes, nose, ears, face and it can also severely damaged growth of limbs. In many c
She was pregnant. Approximate her husband had recently traveled to europe where he acquired a drug. It had not been approved yet for use in the United States of america but it was available many european countries. It was used to treat a number of Different Things. Women began taking it to aleave morning sickness and her husband had been in europe. He had acquired some of these pills and brought it back home for her and she takes about 40 of them early on in her pregnancy. They did not know that it causes birth defects. She read an article about the drug, she found out a little bit more and she called her doctor. She started to learn more about what the medicine can do. For children, it can cause brain damage, damage the eyes, nose, ears, face, damage the growth of limbs. And many cases, the children who had been affected by it did not survive at all. In england about half of the babies died within a few months. Somewhere around 10,000 of these children were born. Most in western europ
So, lets move on to employment discrimination. So, the 1964 Civil Rights Act when it was passed, to sabotage the act, a couple of legislators who were against the act decided to insert a gender clause, thinking that that would sort of cause a lot of people to basically not vote for the act. That backfired. The act got passed anyway. But also, in terms of what it did for race, which weve talked about in the class, it also made it illegal to discriminate based on sex, okay . And so, initially, a lot of womens organizations are pretty optimistic that this will be enforced, but when it is not, of course, a group of women in 1966 founded an Organization Called the National Organization for women. So, n. O. W. , now, is founded in june of 1966 at the third annual conference of commissions on the status of women in washington, d. C. , by its first major organizational meeting in 1966 it was still pretty small, just had about 300 members, but by the early 70s, it had grown to roughly 40,000 me
So, want to start with a little story. In 1963, this woman, sherry finkbein, which is a pseudonym, was featured in a life magazine article. The story was about a choice that her family was facing. She was pregnant. Her husband had recently traveled to europe where he acquired a drug called thalidamide. Thalidomide had not been approved for use in the United States of america but it was approved in european countries. It was used to treat a number of Different Things, anxiety, insomnia, nausea. Nausea is key. Women began taking it to relieve morning sickness. Sherrys husband had been in europe, he acquired these pills and brought them back home for her. Shes pregnant, she takes about 40 of them during early on in her pregnancy. She and her husband did not know that thalidomide causes birth defects. Then she read an article about the drug, found out more, and she called her doctor. She started to learn more about what thalidomide can do. For developing babies, children, thalidomide cause