Women Time Periods

Question 1

Guilded age

Answer 1

Gains:
- 60,000 wm in temperance
- active in churches women’s Christian temperance unions 1972 led decrease money spent protesting Francis Willard damage bars saloons
- industrial growth led to more wokr 1880s 26% philediphias workers WM Atlanta 1/3 workforce
- 1800 1 in 21 marriage divorce
- economic expansion innventions more white collar work 1880s clerks type writer but wages low fewer promotions 1900 949k
- birth rate fell 1850 5.42 1900 3.76
-1900 60%high school wm
- able to join unions
-urban growth more education new collages 1st training school nurses 1873 1890 35 urban more education
- westward expansion teacher cleaners most died childbirth lack healthcare depressed
-Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) 1867 safe housing job training welfare

Loss:
- division suffrage association
- temperance weaken goal
- influx migrants 1880s 90s took anything
- single younger wm low skilled jobs
- men not take part chores wages

Question 2

New deal

Answer 2

Gains :
- elneoor rossvelt
- Francis Perkins sectary of labour
Mary Bethune director of national youth administartion
- Roosevelt took women in leading positions 1st female appeal court judge florenace Allen
- 1st female ambassador Ruth Owen Nellie Taylor Ross first female director of US mint
- fair labour standards act 1938 national recovery administartion limit hours minimum wage
- social security act 1935 helped married women help with children
- unions
- 1930-40 300% rise unionised female labour
- more married working 1940
But cheaper
Loss:
- national recovery administration low wage wm
- agricultural policy not helpful for AA wm did not help south industrial north
- new deal to get men back not WM
Advisors just for social policy family matters
- numbers in politics didn’t increase

Question 3

BP

Answer 3

Gains
- black is beautiful
- organisations 2/3 black panthers men in jail
- 2nd most important member of leadership Elaine Browne safiya Bukhari led armed units
- trained alongside men
- health care education housing
- reoventiary first sister second

Loss:
- Much of the Black Power Movement was inherently sexist, with a great deal of macho male posturing.
• The Nation of Islam (a major part of the Black Power
Movement) was completely opposed to birth control and abortion.
Black activists in the Black Power Movement often said

that women should ‘walk behind their man’ in protests.
• Feminism was seen by many in the Black Power
Movement as a ‘white issue’. It had been started by white women, and was therefore a white phenomenon which they wanted nothing to do with.