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The Lowell Millis in my views not only liberated women but also used them for here own gain. Although The Lowell Millis did allowed women to leave the farm and move to the city to start a more modern life style even though most women where restricted to working in the mills version of a field. The main focus of most women where to be able to raise a family, be homemakers, and make the house look presentable. Women where so as lower class citizens working for the husband and would rarely have much freedom to do any career building. Most city growth relied on where the mills open at and how many women lived near by. By leaving there homes and thus starting a career it give a workingwomen revolution but it did have its hurdles. For example the

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