Women During The 19th Century

To understand the significant change in the role of the women is to understand its roots. Traditionally, women in colonial America were limited in

In the early 1800s, women were second-class citizens. Women were expected to restrict their area of interest to the home and the family. Women were not encouraged to have a real education or pursue a professional career. Also, women were considered unequal to their husbands and all males legally and socially. The day-to day lives of men and women were quite clearly divided during the late 1800s. Woman in the late 1800s were treated inhumane because of society, class, and their rights.

From housewives to educated intellectuals, the roles of women in society have evolved throughout the years. Factors such as wealth, status did affect their roles in the 1700s, but overall every woman had their own place in society. The line between male and female was very distinctive. Substantial events such as the American Revolution, played a big role in modifying gender roles. Women impacted the war in great ways. They proved their capability in more than just being basic housewives. Their heroic activity all the way through the war led them both into an adequate and better off state.

Today, women are believed to be equal to men however this was not always the case. During colonial times, women did not have the same roles as women do today; men and women had fixed roles in society. Roles between men and women do not exchange due to strict gender roles. Additionally, married women were not exactly considered as companions instead, as the husband’s property. Although gender roles were a significant issue among women in early America, another issue was the background of these women. Factors such as race, religion, geography/region, and social class were substantial to the extent of control a woman had over her own life. These factors significantly shaped the lives of these women. For instance, white women had differences

The colonial period in American history is a time of exploration and evolution for the people discovering the New World. Dominated by a completely male society, the rules of this time were made by those in power- rich, white men. Women had little place in society, but when first arriving in the colonies, they were viewed as helpful and necessary. When comparing the start of the colonial era to the end, it can be seen that the views and roles of women in this time period were downgraded tremendously. By the time the American Revolution came in 177, the 1607 mentality of women as necessary was gone and replaced by the view of women as property and worthless. This change came

The history in the 1800s was really rough then now days because they had the Nez Perce war going on and at the same time, we had problems with woman not being able to vote, and the Immigrants were all looking for jobs. As I said earlier about women not being able to vote was a big step back for woman, not so much for men as they didn’t want women to vote. As the author said in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's rights”(w.i.t.p.n.). Woman were treated imperfect towards men all because they were a different gender, which is unacceptable back in the 1840s and would be now if it happened because we should all be treated the the same and have the same rights. As it says in the text “In order to earn revenue from their land

The women activists of the era in the early 1900-1920s have provided awareness into the problems of the progressive era and also into the role of women as it was changing in public life. In the early 1900s, America was confronted with the effects of industrialization that was occurring, the growing importance of economic power, and urbanization of the cities, and a high rate of new immigrants. The changes mentioned above created fears especially in women that traditional values were being lost because wealth was more important. The was a growing desire among the women in society to change the negative effects of industrialization and to convince the government to care more about the social well-being of the people which was eventually known

In the mid to late nineteenth century, America was full of potential. Settlers were cultivating the west, blacks that were once captive were no longer enslaved, and a woman’s role in society was undergoing a transformation. The reality of this all was, blacks were not considered equal status with whites, American Indians were being pushed out west and women were still considered second-class citizens.

At the end of the 18th century and during the 19th century, there were many changes to public ideology that affected the way that women perceived their roles in society. Prior to these changes, women had adopted the beliefs of separate “spheres” separating work into public life and their duties as mothers at home1. Women stayed at home to take care of the children and provide a warm, welcoming home for their husbands to take refuge from public life. Women became aware of their lack of legal and political power after the American Revolutionary War ended as they were denied the right to the same freedoms that granted the right to vote to the white, property-owning male population2. Despite granting women more liberty to run businesses, farms,

In north america during the 19th century, men and women had different expectations to live up to. Men had to be social with their lives while we mom had to stay at home and me neglected. By anyone and everyone. Men were told to go out of the house to be more like other men. And go to bars and stay out all night. While we mom took care of the kids and did their laundry.

Women were seen as economically incompetent because only men in the middle class were allowed to work and support their family. Women were excluded from the professions, except for writing and teaching. The acceptable occupations in the 19th century were factory labor or domestic work. Society used to think that a woman was just able to serve her husband. Eventually, by the 20th century the great majority of women who were employed in clerical positions, factory work, retail sales, and service jobs. Women in factories often work as machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. Many women worked as waitresses, cooks, hospital attendants, cleaning women, and hairdressers, secretaries, and bookkeepers. However, they were paid less than men.

Back in the 19th century, women were nothing more than maids and caretakers. Breaking their limitations was not a factor in their everyday lives. However Dorothea Dix had other beliefs. She believed that women could do more if they were as independent as their opposite sex. She perceived the idea that women could do so much more than just cleaning and cooking. With her powerful beliefs as her shield, Dix battled in the path to improved institutions as a humanitarian. She explored and encountered all types of institutions of the insane. She exchanged her thoughts and beliefs with her peers. The fierce and famous nurse struggled so that troubled people could find peace.

These two women in the 19th century wrote stories and poems that were based on the women's behavior and showed how women were living like back at this time. These stories and poems based on true events prove that women have come a long way and have impacted society by how women can now be apart of more activities and have better opportunities in life to achieve and learn what they want to become educated, independent, and strong than back then. This is something that we all citizens should be appreciating and remembering instead of ignoring.

Near the end of the 19th century, women went through a transition within society, they began to arrest themselves within public holidays in the United States. Women “proceeded to translate the labor and skill peculiar to their sex into the elements of a ceremony.” women started to have an influence on American holidays due to the insertion of their own gender values and symbols into these holidays. Overtime women became to encroach onto other holidays which were historically male, by doing so, women began to claim public space. In the words of Mary P. Ryan, “public ceremonies became less like rituals and more like spectacles” the way in which Americans celebrated the 4th of July had transformed into more or a show as oppose to a formal holiday.

Women in the 18th century were looked at as voiceless objects in a world ruled by men. Women and men did not always have equal rights. In the 18th century women were mainly defined by their family and household roles. The woman did not really have legal identity apart from their husbands. Women were look at as slaves because all they did was be at the house and satisfy their husbands in what they wanted. Men would have total control over his wife’s property. The woman also did not have the right to vote unlike men. Some things that women did not have the right of was to vote, own property, could not sit in a jury trial, and could not be a part of a lawsuit. In 1830, a number of women in the United States argued for the right of woman to own their property and to divorce. In the 18th century gothic literature was happening. Gothic literature was in fiction, art, music, poetry, film, and television. Gothic tradition also includes sense with extreme emotion, fear, madness, and death. Death as a tomb, entombment was also used which is to be placed in a tomb be buried. A feminist writer, publisher, social activist, public lecture, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, said that women depending on men made them unquestionable slaves to them in the United States society. Perkins married the artist Charles Stetson in1884, which then both had a daughter named Katherine. A story that she wrote that can illustrate how women were like in the 18th century is “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The story “The