Changing Roles of Women Islip Polo Club
Samantha & Josiah Marietta Holley Humorist The Woman Question
Equality Debate Vote Control: Private Property & Income Higher Education Professional Jobs Thoughts: social order & femininity Farm & house, essential Young Migrated Rural Cities/ Factories Roles Reform education, labor relations, & public health
Housework Physically demanding Time consuming Technological era - less Physically demanding Time consuming 1908: 18 – 27 hours cleaning house (weekly) Fewer urban women Made homemade bread & butchered meats Canned foods: 1870-1890 More cereals & factory made biscuits Ready made clothing Less homemade Shopped more
From Producer to Consumer Time spent Purchasing Furnishing Not producing Advertised to women Rural Free Delivery 1896 Farmers Petitioned congressmen 1905 32,000 routes Mail-Order Catalog Printed materials Advertising goods Purchased through mail Largest Catalogs Montgomery Ward Sears Roebuck and Company
Expansion! Lighting Transportation Manufactured goods Urban populations Led to Department Stores Large retail establishments Variety Marshall Fields, Chicago Macy’s, New York City Rise of chain stores F.W. Woolworth Brand names
Work Society: careers & marriage don’t mix Single: rising married 1/8 over 10 outside home Society: careers & marriage don’t mix Single: rising married Domestic Work Important source, income Live-In Servants House jobs Supporting families elsewhere Income less than men Educated: nurse & teacher Women’s Colleges Typewriter!
Volunteering Clubs & Associations Intellectual Social Studied interests Gave talks Hard Lectures Example: New England Women’s Club Established libraries, playgrounds Invaluable experience Speaking Writing Finance Self Confidence Public Life
New Ideas Shorter hair Hemlines Skirts & blouses Conveniences! Courting & marriage customs changed Dates no supervision Higher expectations Divorce rate rose Margaret Sanger knowledge of birth control RIGHT TO VOTE walks of unite
Answers- 8. New England Woman’s Club Department store 9. Shorter hair 10. Divorce 11. Vote 12. Shopping 13. Macys 14. Domestic Work 15. Roles of women Department store Rural Free Delivery Mail Ordering Catalog The Woman Question Samantha & Josiah Allen Live-In Servants Typewriter