1. Common Assessment Ch. 9 Section 2 Pages: 313-316 Ha
WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE
Common Assessment
Ch. 9 Section 2
Pages: Ha

2. I. Women: expected role A. Expectations: 1. Stay Home
2. Raise Children
3. Later: choice for
wealthier women
4. Poor women had to work

3. II. Women: in the work force

4. A. Farm Women 1. Cook 2. Make clothes 3. Laundry 4. Raise livestock
5. Plow-plant-harvest

5. B. Women in Industry 1. Better pay 2. 1900: 1 out of 5 women had
paying jobs
3. Manufacturing: 25%
4. Garment Industry: 50%

6. 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

7. III. Women Lead Reform A. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
1. Dangerous conditions
2. Low wages
3. Long Hours
workers
dead

8. TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE

9. B. Women Clubs: 500,000
1. Art
2. Literature
3. Reform
4. By 1910: going strong

10. C. Higher Education
1. New Woman’s Colleges
a) Vassar College (1865)
b) Harvard, refused women
c) Created separate college
for them

11. D. Late 1800s-new choices
1. Marriage OR
2. Work Force

12. 3. Fact: almost 50% of college-
educated women in the late 19th century never married
4. Retained their independence

13. IV. Women & Reform A. Suffrage Movement: to vote 1. NACW: National
Association of Colored
Women
2. NWSA: National Women
Suffrage Association

14. B. Combined forces
1. Leaders
a) Susan B. Anthony
b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton

15. SUFFRAGISTS

16. V. Three goals
A. Achieve suffrage through:
1) State legislature
2) Test court cases
3) National Constitutional
Amendment (winner)

17. B. Success!
1. Took 72 years of fighting
2. 19th Amendment
3. Year: 1920