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Women and Reform

Women and Reform. How were women able to become politically involved without being able to vote or hold public office?. Women In the Workforce. Rural/Farm: not much change Urban/Industries: Opportunities! Better paying jobs and more options for jobs.

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Women and Reform

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  1. Women and Reform How were women able to become politically involved without being able to vote or hold public office?

  2. Women In the Workforce • Rural/Farm: not much change • Urban/Industries: Opportunities! • Better paying jobs and more options for jobs • ●Domestic (home) workers: mostly uneducated • -- Cleaned, cooked, maid & laundry services for other • families

  3. Timeline: Women Lead Reform pgs. 314-315 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Sojourner Truth • No need for women to marry right away • Women can continue their education or enter • the “workforce” • - Apply skills to needed social reform Vassar, Smith, & Wellesley Colleges open Nat’l Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) Fought for women’s suffrage (right to vote) • - Education about race, culture • Managed nurseries, reading rooms, and • kindergardens Nat’l Association of Colored Women

  4. 3-Part Strategy for Suffrage (right to vote) • Convince individual states to allow women to vote • Successful in Wyoming, • Utah,Colorado & Idaho only • Challenge the laws in • court • 14th Amendment: cannot • deny citizens the right to • vote • Aren’t women citizens? • Push for a Const. • Amendment • Unsuccessful for 41 • years!

  5. 19th Amendment • Passed 1920 • Grants women suffrage (right to vote) • Women’s involvement in WWI (homefront) helps

  6. Some Statistics • 1900: 1 in 5 American women held jobs • 25% of working women worked in manufacturing • Garment (clothing) trade employed ½ of all female industrial workers • Earned ½ of what men earned • 1890: female HS graduates outnumber men ● 1870: 70% of employed women are servants

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