Women’s Reform and SuffrageSWBAT: Identify women’s role in both creating workplace reforms and the beginnings of the suffrage movement.

Homework: None

Do Now: What inequalities (if any) still exist between men and women. Consider economically, professionally, socially, politically, etc.

Do Now• What inequalities (if any) still exist between men and women. Consider:

economically, professionally, socially, politically, etc.

Reform

Women and working

• In the mid-1800s, poorer women start working out of necessity.

• Jobs women took: Farmers Textile Industry (making clothing) Domestic Work (house cleaning,

laundry)

• By 1900s, 1 out of 5 women had a job.

Working and Reform• Began to notice some of the problems in

the work force.

• Problems included: Unequal pay Dangerous conditions (think Triangle

Factory Fire) Long hours Child Labor

• Women led the way in work place reforms.

The Fight for Suffrage

The movement begins…

• As early as the 1840s, women began fighting for the right to vote.

• Why? The passage of the 14th and 15th

Amendments Why would this add fuel to the fire?

• Women meet in Seneca Fall, NY to discuss strategy:1. Try to convince state legislatures women should vote.

2. Used court cases to test the 14th and 15th Amendments.

3. Pushed for a constitutional amendment.

“Bad Romance” video• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYQhRCs9IHM

• What argument do the women in the song give for suffrage?

• What happened to the women who picketed?

• What did the note say that the male politician had in his pocket?

Opposition

• Liquor industry feared women would vote in favor of prohibition.

• Textile industry feared women would vote for restrictions on child labor.

• Overall fear that women’s roles would change.

• What do these male illustrated posters suggest about how men viewed women and the right to vote?

Opposition

Progressivism in NJ- Primary Source Analysis

• Read the account of Portia Gage who tried to cast her vote in Vineland, NJ.

• Either individually or with a partner, answer the questions that follow.

• This will be collected and worth 30 points.

Exit Discussion• Do you think activists in the early 1900s would be proud of the steps

forward women have taken to gain equality with men?