WW1 and 18th Amend turning points

Question 1

and the strike, collapsed by the 50s

WTUL

Answer 1

est 1903, becoming more of a working class organisation, adovcated for apprenticeship programs for women to learn skilled labour, helped in ILGWU strike 20,000 migrant women 1909

bridges gap between labour and women’s movement

Question 2

Muller v Oregon 1908

Answer 2

women in the industrial sphere means more rights are won for them NCL successfully advocates for state minimum wage for women and SC ruling Muller v Oregon 1908 reducing women’s working hours

Question 3

WW1 (stats)

Answer 3

2 million took previously male jobs (hard and demanding labour)

women in work from 24% 1914 to 40% by 1918

Question 4

conditions and confidence

WW1 (sig.)

expanded labour opportunities

Answer 4

married women allowed to legitimately enter the workforce and unmarried women now spurt of confidence tackling demanding labour, little childcare provisions or even female toilets in some areas. also clear their position was temporary, would hire wives
RETURN either to the home or pink collar work

earning good wages and their own money, yet paid half the amount men were, efforts to improve conditions were flouted by employers

women in the industrial sphere means more rights are won for them NCL successfully advocates for state minimum wage for women and SC ruling Muller v Oregon 1908 reducing women’s working hours

Question 5

WW1 significance of suffrage

Answer 5

NAWSA delay their efforts to focus on the nation’s war cause, this ironically helped as those efforts helped convince Wilson worthy of voting, promise of suffrage would help women support the war too (stop women’s peace parties growing)

Question 6

18th Amendment

Answer 6

WCTU allies with ASL, with help of ‘wets’ disorganisation, non-partisan tactics and effective lobbying, 18th passed and ratified by states in 1919

proves the effectiveness of female campaign when unifiied in cause