Women in Public LifeChapter 9, Section 2

Pages 313-316

Women in the WorkforceFarm Women

Domestic Workers

Women in Industry

Household tasks & raising livestock & working the fields.

Those w/o education & industrial skills.Cooks, laundresses, scrub-women, & maids.African-American women & immigrants

Turn of century- 1/5 women worked-25% in manufacturing

Made ½ of what men made.

Began to fill jobs in education, offices & stores- led to increase in educational enrollment.

Women Lead Reform

• What caused women to push for reform?

• How did educated women help the cause?

Dangerous conditions, low wages, & long hours

Went to school & afterwards became leaders of the women’s suffrage movement.

Women & Reform• Women’s first reforms called

“_______________________”- like housing reform, educational improvement & food & drug laws.

• NACW-

• Susan B Anthony:

• Suffrage:

Social housekeeping

National Association of Colored WomenManaged nurseries, reading rooms & kindergartens

Leading woman suffragist

Right to vote

• Who was the opposition?

• 3 part- Strategy:– 1:

– 2:

– 3:

Women vote would support ProhibitionWomen would vote for restrictions on child laborFeared changing world.

Grant women to vote state by state

14th Amendment- women citizens too?Supreme Court said yes in 1875, but that doesn’t = the right to vote.

National Amendment giving women the right to vote.