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Chapter 9, Section 2 Pages 313-316
Women in Public Life Chapter 9, Section 2 Pages
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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