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Women in the Modern Period

Economy (19 th ) A-39 Rural/agricultural Industrial/textile Private household Politics Voluntary associations Family/Sexuality falling birth rates. Economy (20 th ) A-39 decline in agricultural Industrial/service Decline in private Politics suffrage Family/Sexuality.

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Women in the Modern Period

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  1. Economy (19th) A-39 Rural/agricultural Industrial/textile Private household Politics Voluntary associations Family/Sexuality falling birth rates Economy (20th) A-39 decline in agricultural Industrial/service Decline in private Politics suffrage Family/Sexuality Women in the Modern Period

  2. Women & Labor/Court Cases • Muller v. Oregon (1908) A-27 justifies special labor legislation for women Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923) A-28 Affirms that women may not be subjected to restrictions upon their liberty of contract which could not lawfully be imposed in the case of men under similar circumstances. acknowledges significance of ‘revolutionary changes” including 19th Amendment, minimizing women’s difference

  3. Women & Race/Court Cases • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): separate but equal found state-sponsored racial segregation to be constitutional. “Legislation is powerless…to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences” • Brown V. Board of Ed of Topeka (1954) Reversed Plessy. Finds state-sponsored racial segregation violates the 14th Amend guarantee of equal protection of the laws

  4. 19th century Decline in size of families Among whites, few mothers work for wages 20th century Decline continues Among whites, increasing numbers of mothers work for wages Family

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