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Women in Public Life

Women in Public Life. Ch. 9.2. Women in the Work Force. Married, middle class women – devoted to care of home & family Late 19 th century (1800s), poorer women had no other choice but to work Farm women Women in Industry Domestic Workers. Women Lead Reforms.

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Women in Public Life

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  1. Women in Public Life Ch. 9.2

  2. Women in the Work Force Married, middle class women – devoted to care of home & family Late 19th century (1800s), poorer women had no other choice but to work Farm women Women in Industry Domestic Workers

  3. Women Lead Reforms Women in Higher Education; alternatives for women besides marriage Women in Reform - Uneducated laborers started efforts to reform workplace health and safety NACW (National Association of Colored Women) Left: Mary Eliza Church Terrell

  4. Suffrage Right to vote! Seneca Falls convention of 1848 • Women’s suffrage After the Civil War: • 14th ;& 15th Amendment? • Women? Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton est. National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

  5. Three Part Strategy for Suffrage • Convince state legislatures to grant women suffrage (WY – 1869, UT, CO, ID by the 1890s) • Court cases argued on the 14th Amendment (citizenship) - Minor vs. Happersett(1875) • National constitutional Amendment – took 41 years, but by 1920 – 19th Amendment was passed

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