Gold Rush Women

The in western society the grown was mostly focus on men role and not how the women have help in making of the west. Doing the gold rush women have made their money by cleaning homes and cooked and clean the cloth of the miners. Women woke up to care the farm and the animals. On the the trail women's role was to work around the camp and the food. The women did not have not rights and help themselves get there right. Treated as 2nd class citizens and did not have the right to own land. Later on the women to role as cowgirls, gunfighter, and outlaws which was a men role at the time. Women of different backgrounds was move to the west for the gold rush. The women have mostly made there by cooking, clean and entertainers. The women was not repeated …show more content…
Get the children up, make breakfast, clean house, cook lunch/ dinner, and if they lived on a farm they would care for the animals and sometimes help harvest the crops. Also, many woman then were very religious and would go to church often. Where most woman then found there husband to be. Even some woman where in to politics and would have peaceful marches for equality and be able to vote.Women had little to no rights in the government. Were considered inferior. Main purpose was reproduction and cleaning the home. They stuggled to break ideal images about how a women should be. A married woman had no separate identity from her husband.The social role of woman in the late 1800's through early 1900's was a strange thing to us. Such as when they are only 15 through mid 20's many woman had there kids and lots of them. Also many woman had many friends because of all there similar problems in life. When they are in there groups many of them started social groups and literary groups to talk about they feelings. lastly they also started to become more active in their community such as counting votes, working in their church's, and more started to go to college to learn majors for