Women in Public Life Ch. 9.2
Women in the Work Force Married, middle class women – devoted to care of home & family Late 19th century (1800s), poorer women had no other choice but to work Farm women Women in Industry Domestic Workers
Women Lead Reforms Women in Higher Education; alternatives for women besides marriage Women in Reform - Uneducated laborers started efforts to reform workplace health and safety NACW (National Association of Colored Women) Left: Mary Eliza Church Terrell
Suffrage Right to vote! Seneca Falls convention of 1848 Women’s suffrage After the Civil War: 14th ;& 15th Amendment? Women? Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton est. National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Three Part Strategy for Suffrage Convince state legislatures to grant women suffrage (WY – 1869, UT, CO, ID by the 1890s) Court cases argued on the 14th Amendment (citizenship) - Minor vs. Happersett (1875) National constitutional Amendment – took 41 years, but by 1920 – 19th Amendment was passed