The Women's Movement

BY PRICILLA FEHOKO

What's
important?
Only upper and middle
class women continued to
live the life style of "serving"
their families. Poorer
women were forced to
work for wages outside of
the home.

Three Types of Working Women

FARM WOMEN

WOMEN IN
INDUSTRY

DOMESTIC
WORKERS

FARM
WOMEN

laundering

harvest crops

cooking

raising livestock

making clothes

plowing/planting

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you
missed....
cooking
making clothes
laundering
raising livestock
plowing
planting
harvesting

WOMEN IN
INDUSTRY

One out of 5 women held

jobs. 25% of them worked
in manufacturing.

Garment trade claimed

about half of all women
industrial workers.

Received half as much $

as men

Supporting only
themselves

What's important ?

New options for finding jobs as better

paying opportunities became available in
towns and cities.

Women also began to fill new jobs

in offices, stores, and classrooms.
These jobs required a high school
education.

Domestic
Workers

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cooks
laundresses
scrub
maids

Women Lead Reform: what's

important ?
Dangerous

conditions, low
wages, and long
hours led women
to reform.

Women Lead Reform

Many of the women who became active
in public life in the late 19th century had
attended the new women's colleges.

Vassar
College

Smith
Wellesley
College College

What's important ?
By

the 19th century marriage was

no longer a women's alternative.

What's important ?

The participation of educated

women strengthened existing reform
groups and provided leadership to
new ones.

Social Housekeeping
work
place
reform

Social
Housekeeping

Dangerous
conditions
low wages /
long hours

housing
reform

food
and
drug
laws

sanitation

meat
packing
industry
prohibition

Seneca Falls Convention of 1848

It was the first women's rights
convention. It advertised itself as
a convention, to discus the
social, civil, and religious
conditions of rights of women.

vote

own land

equal pay

working
conditions

Women who impacted the

movement
Susan B. Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

founded

leading
proponent of
women suffrage.
(the right to vote)

the
national women
suffrage
association.

National American Woman Suffrage

Association

NWSA

NAWSA
AWSA

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liquor

industry
textile industry

A Three Part Strategy For

Suffrage

What's important ?

They achieved victory in the

territory of Wyoming in 1869 and
by the 1890s Utah, Colorado, and
Wyoming granted voting rights to
women. After 1896, efforts in other
states failed.

Stanton succeeded in having the

amendment introduced in
California, but it was later killed.
For the next 41 years, women
lobbied to have it reintroduced,
only to see it continually voted
down.

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states

legislature

right
vote
Fourteenth

Amendment

citizens
national

constitution