Women Guilded Age Flashcards
Positive- Jane Addams
Hull House 1888 helped improve working class and immigrant lives
Positive- YWCA 1867
Organisation Cared for welfare of urban women
Positive- jobs
New white collar job opportunities e.g type writer
Positive- education
50% graduates women= more job opportunities. However most in uni looking for marriage
Negative- temperance
60,000 took part In temperance demonstrations, including women in church. Association with temp weakened focus
Negative- women working
85% still didn’t work shows lack of female support
Negative- double standards
While women roles did expand Double standards still existed as wages unequal
Negative- immigrants
Immigrants 1880/90 led women from south and Eastern Europe working from poor homes. Domestic work associated with immigrants and lost status
Positive- workforce
1/3 of workforce were women