Women and Progressive Reform n Club Women n The Purity Movement n Women and Work n Women and the Vote n Margaret Sanger and Birth Control n Feminism
Women’s Clubs
Frances Willard
White Slavery
Florence Kelley
Sweatshops
Hull House
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
n Argued for the NCL by Louis Brandeis
Muller v. Oregon (1908) n Argued for the NCL by Louis Brandeis n Supreme Court upheld Ore. Law limiting women in factory work to 10 hrs. per day
Muller v. Oregon (1908) n Argued for the NCL by Louis Brandeis n Supreme Court upheld Ore. Law limiting women in factory work to 10 hrs. per day n Based on the argument that women were the “weaker sex!”
Muller v. Oregon (1908) n Argued for the NCL by Louis Brandeis n Supreme Court upheld Ore. Law limiting women in factory work to 10 hrs. per day n Based on the argument that women were the “weaker sex!” n Justified paying women less money than men for the same work!
National Women’s Trade Union League (NWTUL)
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party (1914)
Margaret Sanger and Birth Control
Charlotte Perkins Gilman