1. Chapter 9, Section 2 Pages 313-316
Women in Public Life
Chapter 9, Section 2
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2. Women in the Workforce
Farm Women
Women in Industry
Household tasks & raising livestock & working the fields.
Turn of century- 1/5 women worked-25% in manufacturing
Made ½ of what men made.
Began to fill jobs in education, offices & stores- led to increase in educational enrollment.
Domestic Workers
Those w/o education & industrial skills.
Cooks, laundresses, scrub-women, & maids.
African-American women & immigrants

3. Women Lead Reform What caused women to push for reform?
How did educated women help the cause?
Dangerous conditions, low wages, & long hours
Went to school & afterwards became leaders of the women’s suffrage movement.

4. Women & Reform Right to vote
Women’s first reforms called “_______________________”- like housing reform, educational improvement & food & drug laws.
NACW-
Susan B Anthony:
Suffrage:
Social housekeeping
National Association of Colored Women
Managed nurseries, reading rooms & kindergartens
Leading woman suffragist
Right to vote

5. Who was the opposition? 3 part- Strategy: 1: 2: 3:
Women vote would support Prohibition
Women would vote for restrictions on child labor
Feared changing world.
Grant women to vote state by state
14th Amendment- women citizens too?
Supreme Court said yes in 1875, but that doesn’t = the right to vote.
National Amendment giving women the right to vote.