1. Women in Public Life
Ch. 9.2

2. Women in the Work Force
Married, middle class women – devoted to care of home & family
Late 19th century (1800s), poorer women had no other choice but to work
Farm women
Women in Industry
Domestic Workers

3. Women Lead Reforms
Women in Higher Education; alternatives for women besides marriage
Women in Reform
- Uneducated laborers started efforts to reform workplace health and safety
NACW (National Association of Colored Women)
Left: Mary Eliza Church Terrell

4. Suffrage Right to vote! Seneca Falls convention of 1848
Women’s suffrage
After the Civil War:
14th ;& 15th Amendment?
Women?
Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton est. National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

5. Three Part Strategy for Suffrage
Convince state legislatures to grant women suffrage (WY – 1869, UT, CO, ID by the 1890s)
Court cases argued on the 14th Amendment (citizenship) - Minor vs. Happersett (1875)
National constitutional Amendment – took 41 years, but by 1920 – 19th Amendment was passed