1. Women in Public Life

2. Agenda
1. Bell Ringer: What are the four major issues of the Progressive Movement? (5 minutes)
2. Notes: Women in Public Life (20 minutes)
3. Image Analysis Women’s Suffrage (15 minutes)
4. Speeches for and against Women’s Suffrage (15 minutes)
5. Video Clip: Women’s Suffrage (20 minutes)

3. The Work Force
The Cult of domesticity still exists for middle class women of the period.
Single women commonly worked in factories or were schoolteachers.
Major jobs included work within the garment district in NYC
Office work became an advancement for women, and it required they have a high school diploma. By 1890, women graduates outnumbered men.

4. Reform Begins
Dangerous conditions and low wages began the reform movement for women.
Many would attend college, by 1865 women’s colleges were becoming popular, and these new intellectual women also aided in reform.
A combination of uneducated workers and high education women would work together to reform workplace and housing conditions, educational improvement.
1896, National Association of Colored Women for moral education of the African American Population
Suffrage became a major issue with Seneca Falls in 1848, but split opinion over the rights granted African American men stopped the movement.

5. Suffrage
National Women’s Suffrage Association founded in 1869 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Convince State Legislatures to allow the vote.
Utilized the Courts to pursue suffrage
1872- Susan B Anthony and others tried to vote in ten states, they were arrested.
National Constitutional Amendment proposed in the 1880s, but it would take until 1920.
Increased Activism, Bold marches to build interest, and a national movement by Carrie Chapman Catt.
It would take World War I to create the sentiment and allow women the right to vote.
Nineteenth Amendment passed in 1920, granting women’s suffrage.