Role of women in 19th century?

Answer 1

Women worked in factories, as teachers, servants, midwives, writers, actresses, spinsters, seamstresses etc

They also worked on farms or in the family business.

Increasingly feminists began to demand the acceptance of women in higher education and professions.

They played important roles in reform movements and abolitionism.

At the same time women of the upper classes were increasingly expected to stay at home and do housework, take care of the children.

Answer 2

In the US, at the turn of the 19th century, women still had not won the right to vote. Women in the US had made much progress for themselves and their families by taking jobs, such as telephone operators by 1900. However, the right to vote, a long term feminist issue had been denied to them. It would take another 20 years for the US to solve this problem and pass an amendment granting women's suffrage.

Answer 3

It depended on where. A handful of states, mostly in the western US, had given women the right to vote in local elections (for mayor or school committee); but the ability to vote in federal elections (such as for president) would be denied to women till 1920. In some states, a few women were already pursuing non-traditional occupations (there were a small number of women lawyers, for example, but most could only get hired by their brothers or father). For the majority of women at the turn of the 20th century, they were expected to fulfill traditional roles-- to marry and raise children. Young women were expected to master domestic skills such as cooking and sewing, and they were generally not encouraged to have professional careers (even though a few somehow managed to overcome society's resistance and carve out their own unique life).

Upper class girls had more opportunity to attend school, although college was still considered a luxury that young women did not need; lower-class girls often did not graduate from high school, since they were encouraged to go to work and help their family, which needed some extra income. Minority girls, especially in the south, often did not get beyond the eighth or ninth grade. America was still segregated, so opportunities for minority women were limited (most who worked were maids or they worked in factories; a few became teachers). But if you were an upper-class woman living in a major city, you were probably involved in volunteer work for charities, in addition to being a homemaker. And if you were a middle class woman and unmarried, you might become a nurse, a schoolteacher, or an office worker. (Married women were not encouraged, and in some states, not allowed, to continue working.) It is also worth noting that the new mass medium of movies (then called "moving pictures") began to provide some photogenic young women with a chance at stardom; and in the early 1920s, radio would also provide women with some interesting jobs as studio hostesses, announcers, or entertainers.

Answer 4

They weren't treated really fairly until 1968 because the men believed they could do the jobs better.

Answer 5

I think one was sick so ner :D

Answer 6

They had the right to remain silent