Womens History Lit Review

When women started working in factories, they faced hardships in working conditions. There were dangerous fumes and explosive dangers. There was always the risk of accidental explosions. It was even harder for mothers because there were not any child care policies offered by many companies. Women soon began making unions, such as the National Women’s Trade Union League, where women met and found ways to help raise women wage and have better work

Women in the nineteenth century lived in a time characterized by gender inequality. At the beginning of the century, women could not vote, could not be sued, were extremely limited over personal property after marriage, and were expected to remain obedient to their husbands and fathers.( women’s suffrage movement 1) In most situations, the men would have to go to work and bring home the money, and the women would have no choice but to stay home, clean the

Many women of the early 1900’s wanted to be treated fairly and equally to their male counterparts. For a long time, it was not even socially acceptable for a woman to work. As a woman’s job in society started involving be part of the work force, many

The author, Thomas Dublin, is a professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton. The political activism of the 1960’s and the women’s movement led him to the product of “Women at Work” which focuses on the Industrial Revolution Era during the nineteenth century around 1820. By writing “Women at Work” it allowed the opportunity to place his work historically, discuss about the influences of the era, and how it was shaped.

In Florence Kelley’s speech delivered to the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1905, the author employs empathetic repetition, strong facts, and piteous diction to inspire as many people as possible to work against child labor.

Throughout history, women have faced with a plethora of challenges that called for them to transcend society’s limitations. One of these situations was the challenges presented by the terrible living and factory conditions in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire took the lives of 146 immigrant women and devastated New York; and due to the theft-preventative measures of locking the doors to the factory, owner, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck led to even more lives being lost. This situation, although terrible, was not that uncommon. As these immigrant women arrived in the United States, there would be a typical and similar experience among many; one that started with the problems offered upon arrival,

Women’s history in the United States has always been represented as a struggle for rights. Wealth and status were tied to either their fathers or husbands. In the early 1900s, women were afforded the traditional roles of society. The majority of women worked in the home. If they were of the 18% young or poor women, they also worked in factories as laborers, manufacturing items for the booming industrial revolution (U.S. Department of Labor, 1980). During this time period the workplace was not in compliance with current safety standards. There was no minimum wage yet, work conditions were horrible and they worked long hours, “In 1900, the average workweek in manufacturing was 53 hours,” (Fisk, 2003). Women took “pink

By addressing all the difficulties (with the use of repetition) that these young boys and girls are dealing with, Kelley is capable of maintaining her position as a justice fighter and luring the audience to be on her side. For example, she states that “The children make our shoes in the shoe factories; they knit our stockings, our knitted underwear in the knitting factories. They spin… robbed of school life that they may work for us”. This strongly expresses that everything is done by the hand of young children. By highlighting the reality that adults do nothing while young little girls are working at night, Kelley successfully develops her argument because now, the audience feels guilty about the terrible truth. This alerts the audience that they have to, in fact, must put their voice to speak against child labor, and produce restrictions on it. Therefore, Kelley strengthens her argument because the audience is emotionally

The female wage earners impacted the economic climate of the 1800s and caused significant change to women public activism. While, the majority of white female wage earners were unmarried and living at home. In 1890, the estimated of women wage earners were 3 quarters of women. in addition “10-15% of urban families were headed by single mothers” (297) . For white women at this time domestic work was going down and left in leu of factory labor.

The positivity expressed by the female’s role during the American industrialization stimulated an eagerness for a cultivation pertaining to the responsibilities pertaining to the home front. The most alluring facet of life in the Merrimack River community of Lowell during this time was the opportunities allotted to female workers. Their abilities to express themselves was overshadowed by the guidance of a male domineered industrial atmosphere which demanded strenuous hours and unfit working conditions. As described in the document Factory Tracts. Factory Life As It Is, Number One, (Lowell, MA, 1845), “Slaves to a system of labor which requires them to toil from five until seven o’clock, with one hour only to attend to the wants of nature, allowed—slaves to the will and requirements of the “powers that be,” however they may infringe on the rights or conflict with the feelings of the operative—slaves to ignorance—and how can it be otherwise (Par.3).” The dubious hours and strenuous workload took its toll on the woman whom where entrenched in this lifestyle from which was in need of serious

One way women battled the discrimination was by asserting their working rights. During the industrialization era “managers deskilled production,” therefore “the ranks of factory workers [included] more and more women” who were paid low wages (Henretta, 553). However, women faced criticism of men who argued that they belong at home. Despite the opposition,”woman vigorously defended their right to work”(Henretta, 553). They also participated in the strikes to gain “higher wages and shorter hours” for their long, hard work (Drehle, 86). In general the importance of women working and participating in the

“Sensitive observers, despite their middle-class orientation, could not fail to note that many prostitutes concluded that ‘personal inclination’ had led them into prostitution. Racial situations also developed over what was being fought for. For African American women, their war fought for equal rights for their race, while white women fought for equal rights for just women, turning the situation from gender to race became a prevalent difference between the two. For immigrant women, who found themselves heavily in the poverty side of the class division in America, they were put to work as soon as they made home in the

The third part of Immigrant Woman explained in detail about the working experiences of the immigrant woman. The immigrant woman took different depending on the different demographic places they live. The woman who lived closer to the urban regions took jobs in the factories while the woman who lived closer to rural area took jobs in the farms. Many of the woman took the jobs in order to support their families. As an example,“Married women took jobs because their husbands were sick, injured, unemployed, or no good… drinks and spends his own money. Most often, they did do because their husbands’ earnings were inadequate” (Seller 85). The married woman had to work even harder, because they had to take care of their sick husband alongside figuring

In 19010, “there were more than five million women in the workforce,” so many women needed to change how they dressed to make working easier (25). Women swapped out the typical dress for a “waist-and-skirt” in order to move and work more freely; the shirtwaist became acceptable for every occasion needed, showcasing the “seismic change that industry and urbanization” brought to women and their new found sexuality. As women began to frequent the shirtwaist look, the evolution of “pretty” changed a drawing called the “Gibson Girl;” a woman designed with “fresh-faced and pure, overtly intelligent” features, such as “pert -nosed, large-eyed, full-lipped; narrow at the hips” and beautiful hair and chin (45). With the evolution of the pretty perspective, woman began to dress more intelligently, more for working than for sipping tea. Women created unions to better their working conditions. As the unions appeared, managers-- primarily men-- felt threatened by a loss of money, and in the pursuit of greed, they treated the unionists just like men. Women were sent to jail, hit, beat up by

Feminism, a vindication of the rights of women as Mary Wollstonecraft would say. There are many topics I could talk about but, the one I want to focus on is gender based violence. Many people say that, “Men face violence too.” Which is true, men do face violence in domestic relationships but because of the standard that is put on society most of them are less likely to come forward unlike women, who are more likely to. However, I am not going to be talking about men facing violence. I am going to be talking about violence among women. Domestic violence is the most common issue women suffer from. Is it because in the words of Mary Wollstonecraft that, women are rendering themselves as gentle domestic brutes? Talking about