Women's Role Of Women In The 19th Century

In conclusion women had a very hard life in the early 1800s. They were ruled by their husbands and were not allowed to divorce. Some under-class women were forced to become prostitutes as their status meant it was very hard to get a job. Lower-working class women had difficult jobs as well as looking after their children and family house. Upper-class women could run small businesses but were not allowed to inherit family wealth or

Before 1840 women were viewed as something that needed to be taken care of. They could not own property, fathers would not mention their daughters in their wills, women could not be treasurer of their own companies, it was the husband’s responsibility. Only seven vocations were available to them outside of the home in the late 1840’s; widows would receive no share of her husband’s property or his families, and if one did not marry or remarry she had to enter one of the few employments for her or be a charity case for her relatives. When factory jobs became available to women they were quickly taken because it gave women a way to be independent and not a burden to their loved ones, but earn and spend their own money however the wished. For once

In the first half of the nineteenth century in British North America, women’s political roles differed from those of men. British North America was a European male-dominate patriarchy society in which women’s roles within society were limited. During the nineteenth century, men were considered superior since they had power and control over everyday aspects of life; however, women slowly began to slightly change the social order of society by contributing and influencing decisions on political issues. Despite this not being seen as the norm, for the most part, men dominated politics. Women were able to contribute to the public life, but due to a European influenced patriarchal society within British North America during the nineteenth century, women had limited influence in political decision-making.

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.

How is it different for women today than it was for women in the mid 1800,s. It was different today because women could work and earn the same pay as men could,but women back then could work and, was controlled by there husband.And also today women can vote,but women back then didn't have the right to vote. Today and in 1800's women was or could have or had gotten a divorce.Women today and in the early mid 1800,s were imprisoned and mistreated.But suffragettes in the mid 1800,s set the tone for the other suffragette and women today. In the mid 1800,s the suffragettes gain there right to vote by forming associations and the movements help the women.The suffragettes all came together cause the association was a big deal and the word was

Previously, women have existed in a society ruled by man and have been put under the expectation to be at home raising the children and taking care of the home, while men were expected to go to work and provide for the family. Since the beginning of civilization, women have been victims to prejudice that eventually “compelled women at last to throw off the political, economic, intellectual and social shackles that bound them” (Joshi 13). The complexity of women’s hardship during the nineteenth century, in the fight for equality, resulted in many women getting arrested and looked down upon from their communities. Although the consequences seem treachery, many women risked their livelihood and pushed forth determination and will power to

Why were women considered weak and dependent? Gender roles in the nineteenth century were very different than they are now; women were very sheltered and restricted, while men did all the outside work and roamed free. This theory was conveyed in many articles, stories, and documentaries found previously. As a nineteenth century wife, a list of particular characteristics and ideas were formed in order to consider one as a quality wife. In the short story, “The Birthmark,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Georgiana succeeded as a wife during the nineteenth century according to these unfair gender roles.

In the 1770 care shifted from being done in home by family and neighbors, to women coming out of the home and onto the battlefront to care for wounded men. These women were usually the wives, daughters, and mothers of the men fighting, because without them at home to provide for them the women could not sustain their families. Since these women followed the soldier’s camps through the war they started being incorporated into the care of the wounded men, because the military felt that women would show more compassion to the soldiers than other men would. In 1751 America’s first hospital opened in Philadelphia, but most people did not view hospitals as safe, and preferred to be cared for at home still as they ailed, because at home they

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.

Activism for women’s causes, and the progress of women’s rights resultant from their status as workers, begins in the 19th Century. As women began to abandon the restrictive agrarian lifestyle in favor of work in the textile industry, and women in the Northeast began to take their role as workers in the home and in industry became increasingly recognized-- but this didn’t necessarily lead to an increase in “respect” and “freedom,” as one may suppose. In “To Earn Her Daily Bread,” Boydston demonstrates that the survival of antebellum working class families was dependent on more than just “subsistence wage” alone. (Boydston, 120) She cites housework as having qualitative value-- meaning that a woman’s housework could have “a value without a price,” and should be included in the “surplus value of industrial capitalism.” Women were also vital in the family economy, sometimes producing goods to aid in a family's survival. (Lecture 2, Slide 12) Furthermore, Boydston notes that despite this value, women’s work in the home was perceived as useless, because it didn’t

Women in the lower working class were expected to fill the three roles of mother, housekeeper, and worker. The most esteemed of the classes for women to fall under in this time was the upper-working class. Their attire that consisted of laces, corsets, veils, and gloves easily distinguished these women from that of the lower-working and underclass societies. Educational opportunities women in the 1800’s was sparse, and only women of the highest parts of society were offered any form of schooling. The particularly small portion of women who this was offered to, only received a very bare, basic education. In this time, schooling was for the male gender, and if a woman wanted to go to school, she was looked down upon because “The woman's role was in the house” (Women’s Movement Issues,

In our current time much has changed from the past, men and women are “equal”, but realistically speaking there will always be certain standards set for women that will always differentiate from those set for men. The change in women’s role in the 19th century showed improvement because they began to speak up and refused to be silenced until their voices were heard. This made a deep oppression in the history and lives of women for years to come, but there will always be a standard set by men for women to overcome. The way women are seen today is very different than it was two hundred years ago when our only role was to be mothers, cooks, take care of the children, take care of the home and the husband, and we could not express what we had in mind. Basically this was the typical role of a woman, while men were seen as superior to women and therefore were taking all the decisions not only regarding to them, but also regarding to women and what they thought or wanted was not taken into account. Women were seen as passive and weak, and not as reliable to accomplish all that physically or mentally men could. While it is true that women have accomplished many things throughout the years and that we now own our lives to do with it whatever we want, whether it is be a mother, teacher, businesswoman, and models or have any other type of career we want. It is also true that women of color did not get as many rights and opportunities as white women and were still seen under the

Growing up as a female has never been easy, especially in the past. Their rights and opportunities have evolved throughout the centuries because of prejudiced minds and unfair treatment. This has been an issue throughout the years, although the women of today’s day and age have become triumphant and taken the initiative to create a change. The 19th century was a turning point in women’s history for their rights, education, and expectations that have led for them to become what they are today.

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.

The nineteenth century was a time characterized by gender inequality, a time when European and American women were expected to act subserviently to their male counterparts. Raising the children and taking care of the house were the main roles of women, as occupational roles were limited and directed towards men. The rise of industrialization continued to develop the idea that men were the “breadwinners” of the household, and further entrapped women into the position of only holding domestic and moral duties. Due to these societally imposed limitations, the nineteenth century also kindled gender consciousness and provoked famous women of the time, like Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell, to vehemently reject the age’s expectations of women. (Hunter). In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley engages these very same issues, portraying the passive state of women and their subordination to men, typical for and of her world, yet also supporting the emerging sentiments of breaking those same expectations imposed by her society.