Transcript Women in Public Life - American History K-12

Women in Public Life
Chapter 9, Section 2
Pages 313-316
Women in the Workforce
Farm Women
Household tasks &
raising livestock &
working the fields.
Women in Industry
Turn of century- 1/5
women worked-25% in
manufacturing
Made ½ of what men
made.
Domestic Workers
Those w/o education &
industrial skills.
Cooks, laundresses, scrubwomen, & maids.
African-American women &
immigrants
Began to fill jobs in
education, offices &
stores- led to increase in
educational enrollment.
Women Lead Reform
• What caused women to push for reform?
Dangerous conditions, low wages, & long hours
• How did educated women help the cause?
Went to school & afterwards became leaders of the
women’s suffrage movement.
Women & Reform
• Women’s first reforms called
Social housekeeping
“_______________________”like housing reform,
educational improvement & food & drug laws.
• NACW-
National Association of Colored Women
Managed nurseries, reading rooms & kindergartens
• Susan B Anthony:
Leading woman suffragist
• Suffrage:
Right to vote
• Who was the opposition?
Women vote would support Prohibition
Women would vote for restrictions on child labor
Feared changing world.
• 3 part- Strategy:
– 1: Grant women to vote state by state
– 2:
– 3:
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.