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Women during the Progressive Era

Women during the Progressive Era. Opening Questions?. Do boys and girls have the same opportunities? Do you think men and women should have equal rights in public life? Would you vote for a women for president?. Gender wage gap for women is 77 cents for each dollar a man makes.

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Women during the Progressive Era

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  1. Women during the Progressive Era

  2. Opening Questions? • Do boys and girls have the same opportunities? • Do you think men and women should have equal rights in public life? • Would you vote for a women for president?

  3. Gender wage gap for women is 77 cents for each dollar a man makes. • 10 million more women voters then men

  4. Women in the workforce • By the late 19th century only middle class and upper class women could afford to be housewives • Farm Women • Women in Industry • Domestic workers • Jobs in offices, stores, and classrooms

  5. New Women’s colleges • Vassar (1865), Smith and Wellesley colleges (1875) • Columbia, Brown, and Harvard establish separate colleges for women. • 50% of college educated women in the late 19th century never marry.

  6. Women lead reform • Dangerous conditions, low wages, and long hours led many female industrial workers to push for reforms • 1896 African American women founded the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) • 1890 National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

  7. New York City 1912

  8. Opposition • Liquor industry (prohibition) • Textile industry (restrictions on child labor) • Many men (fear of the changing role of women)

  9. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

  10. Alice Paul (1885-1977)

  11. 3 Part strategy for Suffrage • Convince state legislatures to grant women the right to vote. - Wyoming (1869) Utah, Colorado, Idaho (1890’s) • Pursue court cases against the Fourteenth Amendment (women illegally voted in elections) • Pushed for a national constitutional amendment to grant women the vote.

  12. 19th Amendment • Congress granted women the right to vote, the amendment was ratified in 1920

  13. Questions? • What kind of job opportunities prompted more women to complete high school?

  14. Questions? • What kind of job opportunities prompted more women to complete high school? • Answer: White collar positions such as stenographers, typists, and teachers. • Office jobs

  15. Questions? • Why do you think some colleges refused to accept women in the late 19th century?

  16. Questions? • What women and movements during the Progressive Era helped dispel the stereotype that women were submissive and nonpolitical?

  17. Questions? • What women and movements during the Progressive Era helped dispel the stereotype that women were submissive and nonpolitical? • Answer: Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, suffrage, NACW, NAWSA

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