Women’s Rights

Warm-up List two facts about women during the Progressive Era from yesterday’s notes.

Main Idea As a result of social and economic change, many women entered public life as workers and reformers

Women’s Role Farm women: Job did not change much (did everything) Industry: By the early 1900s, 20% of women were working Domestic Workers: Many women still employed as servants

Women Lead Reform After the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, women took notice of working conditions Women joined clubs about temperance and child labor Many women went to college Marriage not the only option now.

Seneca Falls Convention First women’s rights convention in N.Y. in 1848 Susan B. Anthony – led women’s suffrage (the right to vote) movement Elizabeth Cady Stanton Founded the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) Later became Nat’l American Woman Suffrage Association

No more Slavery, but still segregation! National Association of Colored Women (NACW) Managed nurseries, reading rooms, and kindergartens

Why NOT? Liquor industry fearful they would support prohibition Textile (clothing) Industry fearful they would support restrictions on child labor Many men feared women’s changing role in society

3 Part Strategy Get STATE legislatures to pass suffrage laws Use 14th amendment (equal protection clause) to get vote National Constitutional Amendment

Suffrage Parade, 1912 (64 years AFTER Seneca Falls) – Still waiting for the right to vote!

Opposition

19th Amendment Some states allowed women to vote But, it wasn’t until 1920 that the U.S. Congress passed the 19th Amendment “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Passed under President Woodrow Wilson