Common Assessment Ch. 9 Section 2 Pages: 313-316 Ha WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE Common Assessment Ch. 9 Section 2 Pages: 313-316 Ha
I. Women: expected role A. Expectations: 1. Stay Home 2. Raise Children 3. Later: choice for wealthier women 4. Poor women had to work
II. Women: in the work force
A. Farm Women 1. Cook 2. Make clothes 3. Laundry 4. Raise livestock 5. Plow-plant-harvest
B. Women in Industry 1. Better pay 2. 1900: 1 out of 5 women had paying jobs 3. Manufacturing: 25% 4. Garment Industry: 50%
C. Domestic Workers A. Cleaning for other families 1. Black females: 2 million 2. Freed slaves: no skills 3. Cities for jobs a) Cooks b) Laundresses c) Maids
III. Women Lead Reform A. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 1. Dangerous conditions 2. Low wages 3. Long Hours 4. 146 workers dead
TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE
B. Women Clubs: 500,000 1. Art 2. Literature 3. Reform 4. By 1910: going strong
C. Higher Education 1. New Woman’s Colleges a) Vassar College (1865) b) Harvard, refused women c) Created separate college for them
D. Late 1800s-new choices 1. Marriage OR 2. Work Force
3. Fact: almost 50% of college- educated women in the late 19th century never married 4. Retained their independence
IV. Women & Reform A. Suffrage Movement: to vote 1. NACW: National Association of Colored Women 2. NWSA: National Women Suffrage Association
B. Combined forces 1. Leaders a) Susan B. Anthony b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
SUFFRAGISTS
V. Three goals A. Achieve suffrage through: 1) State legislature 2) Test court cases 3) National Constitutional Amendment (winner)
B. Success! 1. Took 72 years of fighting 2. 19th Amendment 3. Year: 1920