1. Women’s Rights

2. Warm-up
List two facts about women during the Progressive Era from yesterday’s notes.

3. Main Idea
As a result of social and economic change, many women entered public life as workers and reformers

4. Women’s Role Farm women: Job did not change much (did everything)
Industry: By the early 1900s, 20% of women were working
Domestic Workers: Many women still employed as servants

5. Women Lead Reform
After the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, women took notice of working conditions
Women joined clubs about temperance and child labor
Many women went to college
Marriage not the only option now.

6. Seneca Falls Convention
First women’s rights convention in N.Y. in 1848
Susan B. Anthony – led women’s suffrage (the right to vote) movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Founded the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA)
Later became Nat’l American Woman Suffrage Association

7. No more Slavery, but still segregation!
National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
Managed nurseries, reading rooms, and kindergartens

8. Why NOT? Liquor industry fearful they would support prohibition
Textile (clothing) Industry fearful they would support restrictions on child labor
Many men feared women’s changing role in society

9. 3 Part Strategy Get STATE legislatures to pass suffrage laws
Use 14th amendment (equal protection clause) to get vote
National Constitutional Amendment

10. Suffrage Parade, 1912 (64 years AFTER Seneca Falls) – Still waiting for the right to vote!

11. Opposition

12. 19th Amendment Some states allowed women to vote
But, it wasn’t until 1920 that the U.S. Congress passed the 19th Amendment
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
Passed under President Woodrow Wilson