Essay On Women In The Late 1800's

The life style of the average women in the late 1800’s was a very plain and dull for the most part. Their lives were very linear and consistent throughout this time. Including; waking up and getting the kids ready for school, making some breakfast for the family, making sure the house is clan and tight, cooking lunch or the supper for the night. If they lived on a farm then they would also help tend to the crops and the livestock they have. This way of living was the stereotype for how women should live their lives. Women struggled for years trying to break this ideal image of how a women should be. During this era women were viewed ha a possession rather than a companion in a relationship. The father’s job was to decide who was best for his daughter to marry. Women in the late 1800’s had to deal with being treated as property, segregated with …show more content…
Working conditions weren’t pleasant for a women, due to them working as teachers in small towns or in factories that were in awful condition. Working women had awful hours and terrible working conditions, working in buildings that were poorly maintained, dimly lit and often in violation of safety codes. Working 11-12 hour shifts gaining poor wages on top of that. Because these businesses were owned by men, they did not care for the condition under which the women worked in. “The Supreme Court ruled that the fourteenth amendment did not give women the right toe wove any more than it gave children the right to vote”. The ignorance in the government for stating that is just unbelievable. In fact, the fourteenth amendment is first and only place in the constitution in which the right to vote specifically identified as one pertaining to “male” citizens. However, congress should not restrict a person to vote for them being a women. That is what was fought for, for seventy five years and then finally in August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth amendment was