Women in the Late-19 th Century
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Women in the Late-19th Century
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Women Social Disabilities
• Couldn’t own property• Could not have separate bank accounts• Could not save money• Could not take job w/o husband
permission• Had few legal rights
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Married Women’s Property Act
• Passed in Britain, allowed for women to own property in their own name.
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Divorce• Illegal in most European countries.• Adultery was the most common reason
for divorce but it had to be proven.
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Parental Rights
• In nearly all cases of divorce, child custody was awarded to the father.
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Birth Control
• In most European countries, any form of contraception or abortion was illegal.
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Education
• Few European countries allowed women to attend secondary schools or universities.
• An educated woman would affect the traditional gender roles.
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The Job Front• Late 19th century
saw a decline in female laborers as men’s wages increased.
• Women continued to receive low wages for their work.
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The Putting Out System
• Huge manufacturers would make cloth.• This cloth would then get shipped to
tailors, sweatshops, and homes.• Few factories actually made clothes.
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Prostitution• Involved 1000’s of young women in
major cities.• Sought this line of work due to an
overcrowded female work force.• Most were found in major military cities.
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Factual Information
• Very few child prostitutes existed, although the press at the time sensationalized stories about them.
• Nearly all were between the ages of 18-25.
• Nearly all were not forced into that line of work.
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Middle Class Women
• No longer helped with finances.
• Their job was to take care of the domestic duties, be involved in the Church, and display acts of charity.
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Middle Class Women
• Despite illegalities, contraception methods were used.
• M.C. women desired smaller families.
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Feminism Supporters• Mary Wollstonecraft• J.S. Mill• Harriet Taylor
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Millicent Fawcett
• Led the Union of Women Suffrage Societies in London.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
• Radical feminist• Used violence, arson,
and other criminal activity (suffragettes).
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Women Suffrage
• The 1st country to allow women the right to vote was Norway in 1907.
• Britain- after WWI, 30 and over allowed.• France did not allow women to vote until
after WWII.