Depth study: Women in the guilded age(Losses)

Question 1

What weakened women’s rights overall

Answer 1

Divisions between rival suffarage organisations and different aims meant that the cause as a whole had no real direction

Question 2

How did temperance negatively affect women’s rights

Answer 2

women focused more on temperance than advancing women in the public were associated with domestic concerns

Question 3

How did influx of immigrants negatively impact women civil rights

Answer 3

immigrants took any work available in sweatshops and worked within domestic service which then lost its status because of the way immigrants were viewed. single women then ended up in low skill jobs

Question 4

How were wages unfair to women

Answer 4

Women could do the same work as a man and earn half of what he did