DEPTH STUDIES WOMEN:
WOMEN IN THE GILDED AGE
Position Improoed:罳
1. Edu middle-class women campaignd: agt issues concerning family e.g. tdmpdroancd
(drunkenness led to wife-beatng neglect of children)
2. Sdndca Falls Conedntion in 141 start of the campaign for female sufrage
3. NWSA & AWSA unitd: in 190 to the NAWSA to campaign more efectiely for the iote.
4. WCTU formed 1879 = campaigned on issues like sufrage & working conditons
5. Jand A::ams set up Hull House in Chicago in 1889 = social centre to support setlement of
immigrant families campaigned for beter accommodaton by 1890 around 400 centres
6. Setlement House Moiement gaie women opp to bd lda:dros which was denied to them in goit
7. By 1887 2/3 of thd statds had giien married women control of their earnings
8. By 1900 ½ of high school groa:s wdrod fdmald delaying marriages to prolong careers
9. Women employed in domestc seriice haled: 170- 900
0. Number in clerical work incrodasd: x 0
11. In:ustroialisation = single white women lef leaie domestc seriice for industries e.g. textles
12. 1890s single women with a high school edu coul: worok in ofcds as secretaries & receptonists
13. The typewriter & telephone troansforomd: opporotunitids for them
14. By 1900 about 950K womdn worked as teachers, secretaries librarians & telephone operators
15. Actied in TU’s, by mid 1880s there were oier 100 female trade unions
16. Incrodasd: dmploymdnt = birth rate fell from 5.4 to 3.6 1850-1900
17. Dieorocd roatd :oubld: 1880-1900 bc beter educated & fnancially independent more assertie
Position was Limitd:罳
1. Most women wdrodn’t politically actied did not gain the iote natonally untl 1920.
2. Women in the sufragist moiement = mainly d:ucatd: whitd, mi::ld class (niche group)
3. Most working class or ethnic minority women took littld intdrodst in the issue
4. Untl 1890 the sufragist moiement was :iei:d:
5. “Sdparoatd Sphdrods” idea remained dominant & accepted by most women themselies
6. 1887 /3 of US statds ha: still not giien married women control of their own earning
7. Marriage laws were determined at statd ldedl rather than federal leiel
8. Diiorced women would noromally losd their children & property
9. Female employment increased only in junioro low pai: roolds
10. Expectaton that single women would gied up thdiro jobs when they married
11. Educated white women gaind: no rodal accdss to beter paid professions like law & medicine
12. EM womdn :i:n’t bdndft from beter job opportunites bc trapped in unskilled low paid work
13. EM Womdn = no legal protecton like domestc seriice, agri labour/ dangerous factory work.
14. Fdmald immigroant factoroy worokdros had on aierage to work 70 hours to earn $5
15. No choice but slum tdndmdnts charged extortonate rents bc of shortage of accommodaton
16. “laissdz fairod” = no legal protecton, esp in terms of H&S so conditons ofen dangerous
17. Pai: ldss than mdn eien if they did the same work.
18. By 1900 only 2% of union members were female
19. Sufered sdxual haroassmdnt from employers
20. Comstock laws 173 banned marketng, sale & distributon of contracepties could only
be obtained on the black market - making them unafordable for working class women
WOMEN IN THE GILDED AGE
Position Improoed:罳
1. Edu middle-class women campaignd: agt issues concerning family e.g. tdmpdroancd
(drunkenness led to wife-beatng neglect of children)
2. Sdndca Falls Conedntion in 141 start of the campaign for female sufrage
3. NWSA & AWSA unitd: in 190 to the NAWSA to campaign more efectiely for the iote.
4. WCTU formed 1879 = campaigned on issues like sufrage & working conditons
5. Jand A::ams set up Hull House in Chicago in 1889 = social centre to support setlement of
immigrant families campaigned for beter accommodaton by 1890 around 400 centres
6. Setlement House Moiement gaie women opp to bd lda:dros which was denied to them in goit
7. By 1887 2/3 of thd statds had giien married women control of their earnings
8. By 1900 ½ of high school groa:s wdrod fdmald delaying marriages to prolong careers
9. Women employed in domestc seriice haled: 170- 900
0. Number in clerical work incrodasd: x 0
11. In:ustroialisation = single white women lef leaie domestc seriice for industries e.g. textles
12. 1890s single women with a high school edu coul: worok in ofcds as secretaries & receptonists
13. The typewriter & telephone troansforomd: opporotunitids for them
14. By 1900 about 950K womdn worked as teachers, secretaries librarians & telephone operators
15. Actied in TU’s, by mid 1880s there were oier 100 female trade unions
16. Incrodasd: dmploymdnt = birth rate fell from 5.4 to 3.6 1850-1900
17. Dieorocd roatd :oubld: 1880-1900 bc beter educated & fnancially independent more assertie
Position was Limitd:罳
1. Most women wdrodn’t politically actied did not gain the iote natonally untl 1920.
2. Women in the sufragist moiement = mainly d:ucatd: whitd, mi::ld class (niche group)
3. Most working class or ethnic minority women took littld intdrodst in the issue
4. Untl 1890 the sufragist moiement was :iei:d:
5. “Sdparoatd Sphdrods” idea remained dominant & accepted by most women themselies
6. 1887 /3 of US statds ha: still not giien married women control of their own earning
7. Marriage laws were determined at statd ldedl rather than federal leiel
8. Diiorced women would noromally losd their children & property
9. Female employment increased only in junioro low pai: roolds
10. Expectaton that single women would gied up thdiro jobs when they married
11. Educated white women gaind: no rodal accdss to beter paid professions like law & medicine
12. EM womdn :i:n’t bdndft from beter job opportunites bc trapped in unskilled low paid work
13. EM Womdn = no legal protecton like domestc seriice, agri labour/ dangerous factory work.
14. Fdmald immigroant factoroy worokdros had on aierage to work 70 hours to earn $5
15. No choice but slum tdndmdnts charged extortonate rents bc of shortage of accommodaton
16. “laissdz fairod” = no legal protecton, esp in terms of H&S so conditons ofen dangerous
17. Pai: ldss than mdn eien if they did the same work.
18. By 1900 only 2% of union members were female
19. Sufered sdxual haroassmdnt from employers
20. Comstock laws 173 banned marketng, sale & distributon of contracepties could only
be obtained on the black market - making them unafordable for working class women
