Transcript Women in Public Life

Women in Public Life
Women in the Work Force
• What types of work did
women do?
– Farm work
• Roles mainly stayed the
same
– Factory Work
• 25% of working women
work in factories
– Majority in garment
trade
• Low pay and lowest
skilled jobs
Women in the Work Force
– Office Work
• Usually required high school education
– New Business Schools
• Opened to offer more specific training
– Stenographers and typists
Women Lead Reform
• Addressed Problems In
– Housing
– Workplace
– Education
– Food and Drug Laws
• Mostly college educated at women’s colleges
Women Lead Reform
• Women Crusade for Suffrage
– Began in 1848 at Seneca Falls Convention
• National Women Suffrage Association founded in 1869
– Led by Susan B. Anthony
3 Part Strategy
• Three Approaches
– State Legislatures
• Start on the state level and allow it to grow
– Gained Wyoming in 1869 but few followed until 1920’s
– Court System
• Argued that under 14th amendment citizens were given
the right to vote
– Constitutional Amendment
• States would introduce, debate, and dismiss numerous
times