Women in Public Life Chapter 9 Section 2
Women in Public Life Chapter 9, Section 2 Pages 313 -316
Women in the Workforce Farm Women Household tasks & raising livestock & working the fields. Women in Industry Turn of century- 1/5 women worked-25% in manufacturing Made ½ of what men made. Domestic Workers Those w/o education & industrial skills. Cooks, laundresses, scrubwomen, & maids. African-American women & immigrants Began to fill jobs in education, offices & stores- led to increase in educational enrollment.
Women Lead Reform • What caused women to push for reform? Dangerous conditions, low wages, & long hours • How did educated women help the cause? Went to school & afterwards became leaders of the women’s suffrage movement.
Women & Reform • Women’s first reforms called Social housekeeping “____________”like housing reform, educational improvement & food & drug laws. National Association of Colored Women • NACW- Managed nurseries, reading rooms & kindergartens • Susan B Anthony: Leading woman suffragist • Suffrage: Right to vote
• Who was the opposition? Women vote would support Prohibition Women would vote for restrictions on child labor Feared changing world. • 3 part- Strategy: – 1: Grant women to vote state by state – 2: – 3: 14 th Amendment- women citizens too? Supreme Court said yes in 1875, but that doesn’t = the right to vote. National Amendment giving women the right to vote.
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