Mary Richmond's American Social Status

Their stance may not have been as boisterous then as it is now, but they have always played an important role within the formation of todays’ society. The final attribute, studied within this chapter, supports this notion with the rise of female workers within America. Some of the most famous women social employees were: Jane Addams, Charlotte Gilman, Anna Cooper, Ida Wells-Barnett, Marianne Weber, and Beatrice Webb. Each of these women were still looked upon as inferior to men despite their contributions to society as a whole. These women believed sociology was developed from scholarly investigations that helped to attribute to the ideology of improving ones’ life through education and learning means. The women believed that this change would bring about both a sense of belong for women within cultural societies as well as modeling the community into a world in which everyone can coincide together. Their work would not be accounted for under the sociological realm of study… but it would be attributed to the greater sense of communal study as it is known

Jane Addams, a pioneering social worker, helped bring attention to the possibility of revolutionizing America’s attitude toward the poor. Not only does she remain a rich source of provocative social theory to this day, her accomplishments affected the philosophical, sociological, and political thought. Addams was an activist of courage and a thinker of originality. Jane Addams embodied the purest moral standards of society which were best demonstrated by her founding of the Hull-House and her societal contributions, culminating with the winning of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize.

However, not only did women work in the fields they also produce goods, and services; such as clothing, personal hygiene items, and food to be sold in order to build -up their coffer’s through that of their overabundance of supplies. This impact took place during the 1700’s and beyond, when women from all aspects of life filled these domestic jobs while working for very little pay; getting absolutely nothing at all for their work. During the 1800’s, however, this all changed for women and soon these women we’re categorized as being unskilled workers this causing tremendous consequences for these women; especially when the men return for war and once again took on the gender roles to which women were now a custom too.

Most Americans know John Wilkes Booth as the assassin of Abraham Lincoln- shot at a play at Ford’s Theater on April 14th, 1865. However, the names of the conspirators that surrounded Wilkes Booth are relatively unknown, especially that of Mary Surratt. Mary Surratt, a mother and boardinghouse proprietor, was arrested and tried for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln along with her son, John Surratt. Pleas from her family, lawyer, and fellow conspirators did not allow her to escape her fate, and she was hanged for her crimes on July 7th, 1865. Even from the scaffold, Lewis Powell, another conspirator condemned to die, cried, “Mrs. Surratt is innocent. She doesn't deserve to die with the rest of us.” So who was this woman, and most

With the center of production moving from households to mass-production, women in America had to alter their way of life. A great number of women followed labor opportunities to the mills, factories, and workshops. For the first time in history, large numbers of women left their homes to participate in the public world. “Mill Girls” were typically young, unmarried women who lived together in boarding houses provided by the factory for which they worked. Lucy Larcom recalls,

While at the Hampton Institute, Barrett came to value community service and social welfare. She took on the responsibility, as an educated, black woman, to help better her community and her race (Woods & Kennedy, 1911). While Barrett was trained as a teacher, and worked as one for some time, her dedication to social welfare made her a pioneer in the field of social work. One of her first efforts was to invite young women to her home for education, recreation and social activities. In fact,

Clara Barton is not only an example of women/ Americans at their finest, but she also can and should be revered as a national hero. Clara Barton answered the call to duty in a time when women weren 't necessarily valued not only socially but as assets of contribution. Clara Barton took up the call by helping save thousands of lives through nursing and providing supplies during the Civil War while also introducing one of America’s first responding organizations, the American Red Cross. Clara Barton was a servant to this country and to mankind, something our world is shorthanded of currently and what others can aspire to be.

Florence Kelley was born on September 12, 1859 in Philadelphia and she would later become a famous child welfare advocate and social reformer. She was born to U.S. congressman William Darrah Kelley, who was a founding member of the Republican party, a radical deconstructionist, and an abolitionist. When Kelley was a child her father would take her to see the young boys working at the factories in dangerous conditions, to teach her about child laborers. Through her fathers influence and reading various books of her father’s on social reform, human rights and slavery, Kelley focused on advocacy for child labor reform. In 1876, Kelley enrolled at Cornell University and a few years later, moved to Europe and attended the University of Zürich. While

Mary Sorrells was born on December 23, 1963 at Kings Daughters Hospital in Staunton, Virginia. She was the middle child in a family of four brothers, and four sisters. At the age of eighteen, she graduated high school, and worked in a factory while obtaining a nursing license. On September 3, 1983, she married Gary Spangler in a Pentecostal church in Staunton, Virginia. Thirteen years later, on March 12, 1997, Mary gave birth to her first child (Jacob) at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where our journey begins. So, after fifty-one years of maturing into a wise adult, this is what this five foot tall woman is today.

Mary Ellen Wilson was born in 1864 to Francis and Thomas Wilson of New York City. Soon thereafter, Thomas died, and his widow took a job. No longer able to stay at home and care for her infant daughter, Francis boarded Mary Ellen (a common practice at the time) with a woman named Mary Score. As Francis’s economic situation deteriorated, she slipped further into poverty, falling behind in payments for and missing visits with her daughter. As a result, Mary Score turned two-year-old Mary Ellen over to the city’s Department of Charities (National Network for Child Care.)

During the early 1800's women were stuck in the Cult of Domesticity. Women had been issued roles as the moral keepers for societies as well as the nonworking house-wives for families. Also, women were considered unequal to their male companions legally and socially. However, women’s efforts during the 1800’s were effective in challenging traditional intellectual, social, economical, and political attitudes about a women’s place in society.

At the age of 15 she became a convict and was transported to Australia convicted for 7 years because of stealing a horse. That’s where her experience of becoming a convict took its place. She had to live like a servant under strict rules and regulations convicts were expected to work from sunrise to sunset. In hot weather they had an hour off in the middle of the day. Mary was assigned as nursemaid to the household of Major Francis Grose. Mary only being 15 (source 1), at the time, didn’t already have many skills, whilst no having a mother figure to learn and look up to Mary had to learn everything on her own. The effect Migration had on Mary was that her identity came out (they found out she wasn’t a boy) she developed skills and strength, and also found a husband and became the owner of his business when he passed away, and she had 7 children. If Mary didn’t become a convict she would have been in England by herself no knowing where to go because she ran away at a young age. Being a convict helped her have a life in

Ladies ' legislative issues in the 20th Century came to past self-characterized women 's activists, as conventional ladies associations handled issues of important to ladies ' regular lives. An examination of the positions and moves on welfare change made the researchers and feminist through Voters and the National Organization for Women in the middle of 1970s difficulties the suspicion that all white collar class women disregarded the issues of poor ladies and highlights a discriminating defining moment in American progressivism. The League 's activism uncovers the profundity and

The official development of the profession of social work is recognized by scholars to be connected to the Charity Organization Society (COS) and the Settlement House Movements. Both started in the late 1800s. Jane Addams founded the first settlement-house in 1889, and the Charity Organization Society started in Britain in the 1850s. These two separate and different movements are credited with developing the organization and delivery of social work (Karger & Stoesz, 2001).

In 1909 richmond achieved the position of director of the charity organization , department of Russell sage foundation. Holding this position given her exposure to her work for research in the field of social work.