The United States from 1877 to 1914Key feminist goals, 19th

century

• Right to vote• Abolition of “coverture”• Legal independence• Right to equal

education• Right to protection

against violence within and beyond marriage

• Right to not have sex

The United States from 1877 to 1914

“This hour belongs to the Negro.”

Frederick Douglas“Do you believe the African race is composed entirely of males?”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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“Women first and Negro last; that is my program.”George Francis

Train

The United States from 1877 to 1914

• National Woman Suffrage Association; Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; strategy: work outside the Republican party

• American Women Suffrage Association; Lucy Stone; strategy: work within the Republican party

1869

The United States from 1877 to 1914

• 1900:• 5,319,000 women

worked for wages• 932,000 in clothing

or textile mills• 2 million women

worked as domestic servants

The United States from 1877 to 1914

Women’s suffrage map

The United States from 1877 to 1914

“It is a risk, a danger to a country like ours to send 1,000,000 men out of the country who are loyal and not replace those men by the loyal values of the women they have left at home.”

Carrie Chapman Catt

The United States from 1877 to 1914

UN Resolutions for Women’s Rights as of 1995

• 193 countries in the world• 139 countries ratified Elimination of All

Forms of Discrimination • 127 ratified Equal Pay for Equal Value • 126 ratified Equality in Employment • 105 ratified Equal Political Rights • 44 ratified Equal Marriage Rights

Women...A World Survey, 1995, World Priorities, by Ruth Leger Sivard

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Female Education as a Percent of Male Education, 1995

  Literacy Rate

Elementary

Secondary

Higher Education

Average

Latin America 97 95 106 89 97

Middle East 75 86 71 64 74

South Asia 57 73 58 45 58

Far East 84 90 85 68 82

Oceania 81 86 81 47 74

Africa 69 82 78 54 71

Women...A World Survey, 1995, World Priorities, by Ruth Leger Sivard