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Women During the Progressive Era
The Work Force• Women not wealthy enough to fill “stereotype” roll• Began to work for wages
• Southern women began to work on the farm• Started to work in industry• Least skilled positions
• Domestic jobs• Cleaning, babysitting, etc.
Reform• Pushed for changes due to dangerous conditions, long hours,
and low wages• Began to attend women colleges• Education > marriage
Wanting Suffrage• National Association of Colored Women (NACW)• Managed nurseries, reading rooms, and kindergartens
• Susan B. Anthony • Leading role in women’s suffrage
• Men become worried of the woman’s vote• Prohibition and child labor laws
3 Part Strategy for Suffrage• 3 different approaches• Convince legislator to grant suffrage
• Worked in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho• Pursued court cases to test the 14th amendment
• Denying men the right to vote = loss of representation• Tested this by trying to vote• Supreme Court said women are citizens but not all citizens have this
right• Pushed for Constitutional amendment
• Introduced but not successful in California• Continuously voted down