Women During the Progressive Era

The Work Force• Women not wealthy enough to fill “stereotype” roll• Began to work for wages

• Southern women began to work on the farm• Started to work in industry• Least skilled positions

• Domestic jobs• Cleaning, babysitting, etc.

Reform• Pushed for changes due to dangerous conditions, long hours,

and low wages• Began to attend women colleges• Education > marriage

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

• Susan B. Anthony • Leading role in women’s suffrage

• Men become worried of the woman’s vote• Prohibition and child labor laws

3 Part Strategy for Suffrage• 3 different approaches• Convince legislator to grant suffrage

• Worked in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho• Pursued court cases to test the 14th amendment

• Denying men the right to vote = loss of representation• Tested this by trying to vote• Supreme Court said women are citizens but not all citizens have this

right• Pushed for Constitutional amendment

• Introduced but not successful in California• Continuously voted down