1. I. The Female Labor Force
A. Continuity and Change for Women Wage Earners
1. Increase in Number of Women Workers
2. New Industries and Professions
3. Combining Vocation and Marriage
4. “Female Professions”
5. African American Women

2. I. The Female Labor Force
B. Organizing Women Workers: The Women’s Trade Union League
1. Women Neglected by Trade Unions
2. Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL)
C. The Rising of the Women
1. Series of Women’s Strikes in Shirtwaist Industry
2. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
3. Lawrence Strike
4. Women Enter Trade Unions

3. II. The Female Dominion A. Public Housekeeping
1. Progressive Era and “Public Housekeeping”
2. “Maternalism” and Reform Work
B. Maternalist Triumphs: Protective Labor Legislation and Mothers’ Pensions
1. Maximum Workday for Women
2. Maternal Pension Programs

4. II. The Female Dominion
C. Maternalist Defeat: The Struggle to Ban Child Labor
1. Federal Efforts
2. Opposition
D. Progressive Women and Political Parties
1. Women in Party Politics
2. Women and the Progressive Party
3. Socialist Women

5. II. The Female Dominion
E. Outside the Dominion: Progressivism and Race
1. Progressivism and Segregation
2. National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
3. Native American Women’s Advocacy

6. III. Votes for Women A. A New Generation for Suffrage
1. Expansion of Woman Suffrage Movement
2. Push for Federal Amendment
3. Obstacles
B. Diversity in the Woman Suffrage Movement
1. Collaboration of Reformers and Trade Unionists
2. Support from Wealthy, Educated Women
3. African Americans and Woman Suffrage

7. III. Votes for Women
C. Returning to the Constitution: The National Suffrage Movement
1. State Suffrage Campaigns
2. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns
3. NAWSA Mobilizes

8. IV. The Emergence of Feminism
A. The Feminist Program
1. Feminist Culture and Beliefs
2. Rejection of Previous Notions of Women’s Sexuality
3. Urban Feminist Sexuality
B. The Birth Control Movement
1. Evolution of Women’s Sexuality
2. Margaret Sanger

9. V. The Great War, 1914–1918 A. Pacifist and Antiwar Women
1. Peace Advocacy and Wartime Challenges
2. Intensified Anti-Socialism in U.S.
3. Suffragism as Treason
B. Preparedness and Patriotism
1. Women’s Support for War Effort
2. Women’s Pro-War Activities
3. Female Wartime Labor

10. V. The Great War, 1914–1918 C. The Great Migration
1. Changes in African American Women’s Work
2. Women Wage Earner’s Association
3. Hostility in the North
D. Winning Woman Suffrage
1. Suffrage Movement at Peak
2. Wilson and Congress Back Amendment
3. Continued Struggles for Equality