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“ Women in Public Life ”

“ Women in Public Life ”. Chapter 9 Section 2. NEXT. SECTION. 2. Image. I.) Women in the Work Force. A. Changing Patterns of Living Middle & Upper-class women can devote selves to home, family Poor women usually have to work for wages. B. Farm Women Women’s roles same as before

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“ Women in Public Life ”

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  1. “Women in Public Life” Chapter 9 Section 2 NEXT

  2. SECTION 2 Image I.) Women in the Work Force • A. Changing Patterns of Living • Middle & Upper-class women can devote selves to home, family • Poor women usually have to work for wages • B. Farm Women • Women’s roles same as before • Perform household tasks, raise livestock, help with crops Continued . . . NEXT

  3. SECTION 2 • C. Women in Industry • After 1900, 1 in 5 women hold jobs; 25% in manufacturing • Garment trade large employer • Jobs in offices, stores, classrooms require high school education • Business schools train bookkeepers, stenographers, typists • D. Women as Domestic Workers • Women without formal education take jobs as domestic workers • (maids, nannies, etc. for other families) • Many African-American & immigrant women do domestic labor NEXT

  4. SECTION 2 Image II.) Women Lead Reform • A. Women Get Involved • Many female industrial workers seek to reform working conditions • Women form cultural clubs, sometimes become reform groups • B. Women in Higher Education • Many women active in public life have attended new women’s colleges (Vassar College, Smith & Wellesley College) • 50% college-educated women never marry; many work on social reforms Continued . . . NEXT

  5. SECTION 2 Map C. Women and Reform • Women reformers target workplace, housing, education, food, drugs • National Association of Colored Women (NACW)—child care, education • Susan B. Anthony of National American Woman Suffrage Assoc. (NAWSA) - works for woman suffrage, or right to vote • D. Three-Part Strategy for Suffrage • Convince state legislatures to give women right to vote • Test 14th Amendment—states lose representation if deny men vote • Push for constitutional amendment to give women the vote NEXT

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