WOMEN’S RIGHTS

WARM-UP

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

MAIN IDEA

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

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

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.

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

NO MORE SLAVERY, BUT STILL SEGREGATION!

• National Association of Colored Women (NACW)• Managed nurseries, reading rooms, and

kindergartens

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

3 PART STRATEGY

• Get STATE legislatures to pass suffrage laws• Use 14th amendment (equal protection

clause) to get vote• National Constitutional Amendment

SUFFRAGE PARADE, 1912 (64 YEARS AFTER SENECA FALLS) – STILL WAITING FOR THE RIGHT

TO VOTE!

OPPOSITION

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