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Chapter 4: The Progressive Era. Section 2: Women Make Progress. Progressive Women Expand Reform. Growing number of women go to colleges for careers in teaching and nursing Many middle class white women tackle problems in society
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Chapter 4: The Progressive Era Section 2: Women Make Progress
Progressive Women Expand Reform • Growing number of women go to colleges for careers in teaching and nursing • Many middle class white women tackle problems in society • Women that worked faced long hours, difficult jobs, and dangerous conditions • Handed wages over to husbands, fathers, or brothers
Progressive Women Expand Reform • Without being able to vote, women had no influence on politicians • Key goal was to limit work hours for women • Capped hours at 10 hr days • Muller v. Oregon said based on roles as mothers, laws could limit hours • Also used to justify lower wages for women
Progressive Women Expand Reform • Florence Kelley said unfair prices of goods hurt women • National Consumers League put labels on goods that were produced under fair, safe, and healthy working conditions • Pushed for inspections in meatpacking, make safer workplaces, and payments to unemployed • Women’s Trade Union League fought to improve conditions for female factory workers, min. wage, 8 hr. day, workers’ strike fund.
Progressive Women Expand Reform • Temperance movement led bythe Women’s Christian Temperance Union • Practice never drinking alcohol • Men spent money on liquor, abused wives, and neglected families • Margret Sanger- said family and women’s life would improve if they had less children • Open first birth control clinic • Ida B. Wells- National Association of Colored Women • NACW set up day care to educate black children
Women Fight for the Right to Vote • Suffrage – the right to vote • Jane Addams said women needed to vote because political issues reached inside people’s homes • By 1890’s women had the vote in Western states Wyoming and Colorado • Carrie Chapman Catt- formed the National American Suffrage Association • Worked on two fronts: one to Congress, a second to pass state suffrage laws. • National Association Opposed to Women’s Suffrage • Women voting would take attention away from the home
Women Fight for the Right to Vote • Alice Paul- formed the National Women’s Party which used public protest marches • First group to march with picket signs outside the White House • Nineteenth Amendment – stated that the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex” • Tennessee House of Rep. passed with one vote making the amendment official
