Women in Public Life

1. Women in Public Life

2. I. Women in the Work Force • A. Farm Women • 1. Women handled tasks such as cooking, making clothes, laundering, raised livestock, help plow, and harvest crops

4. B. Women in Industry • 1. Half of women in industry worked in the garment trade. • 2. By 1890 women high school graduates outnumbered men graduates and women began to get jobs in offices, stores, and classrooms. • 3. However, women often got paid half as much as men because it was assumed men had to support families.

7. C. Domestic Workers • 1. Many women without education did domestic work, or cleaning for other families.

8. II. Women Lead Reform • A. Women and Reform • 1. Women Reformers strove to improve conditions at work and home. • 2. The National Association of Colored Women (NACW) helped bring moral education to African American Children. • 3. Under women like Susan B. Anthony, women sought to gain “suffrage,” the right to vote

9. 4. In 1869 Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association. (NAWSA) • 5. Women suffrage faced constant opposition because many felt women would vote for prohibition, women would vote on restrictions on child labor, and men feared the changing role of women in society.

10. Susan B. Anthony

11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

13. B. A Three Part Strategy For Suffrage • 1. Women tried to convince state legislatures to grant them the right to vote. • 2. Women pursued court cases to challenge the 14th amendment that said male citizens had the right to vote. • 3. Women pushed for a national constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote.

16. Dawes Act of 1887 Allowed individual Native American to claim reservations land and citizenship rights