Women’s Rights

1. Women’s Rights

2. Warm-up • List two facts about women during the Progressive Era from yesterday’s notes.

3. Main Idea • As a result of social and economic change, many women entered public life as workers and reformers

4. Women’s Role • Farm women: Job did not change much (did everything) • Industry: By the early 1900s, 20% of women were working • Domestic Workers: Many women still employed as servants

5. Women Lead Reform • After the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, women took notice of working conditions • Women joined clubs about temperance and child labor • Many women went to college • Marriage not the only option now.

6. Seneca Falls Convention • First women’s rights convention in N.Y. in 1848 • Susan B. Anthony – led women’s suffrage (the right to vote) movement • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Founded the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) • Later became Nat’l American Woman Suffrage Association

7. No more Slavery, but still segregation! • National Association of Colored Women (NACW) • Managed nurseries, reading rooms, and kindergartens

8. Why NOT? • Liquor industry fearful they would support prohibition • Textile (clothing) Industry fearful they would support restrictions on child labor • Many men feared women’s changing role in society

9. 3 Part Strategy • Get STATE legislatures to pass suffrage laws • Use 14th amendment (equal protection clause) to get vote • National Constitutional Amendment

10. Suffrage Parade, 1912 (64 years AFTER Seneca Falls) – Still waiting for the right to vote!

11. Opposition

12. 19th Amendment • Some states allowed women to vote • But, it wasn’t until 1920 that the U.S. Congress passed the 19th Amendment • “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” • Passed under President Woodrow Wilson