How women contribute to the progressive movement?

Answer 1

Let their husbands make all the decisions

not true. The women were tired of being treated like they just property and like they're stupid rather than intelligent beings that are not prizes to be won or items to be bought. Women wanted a say in what happens in this country.

Answer 2

~ Susan B. Anthony the radical Quaker who had courted jail by trying to cast a ballot in the 1872 presidential election ~ Settlement houses exposed middle-class women to poverty, political corruption, and intolerable working and living conditions. ~ Organizations: Women's Trade Union League, National Consumers League ~ Florence Kelleyà (out of Jane Addams's Hull House) took control of the National Consumers League in 1899 and mobilized female consumers to pressure for laws safeguarding women and children in the workplace. ~ Literary clubs where educated women met to improve themselves with poetry and prose

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Answer 3

They wanted to deal with social changes in their communities, like abolishing slavery. They were also able to better some issues like drunkenness. In fact, since the Temperance Movement (though it doesn't really answer your question), alcohol consumption has dropped about four times the amount in the early 1800s.

Answer 4

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