The Gilded Age is often known as the death of President Lincoln and the rise of President Theodore Roosevelt. The political and economic world was changing at a rapid pace; something came to my attention as I was reading one of our books Born for liberty our chapter is called “Maternal Commonwealth in the Gilded Age 1865-1890 (119). I remembered that someone in my family studied this era and still has the book about this era and this book was called America in the Gilded Age by Sean Dennis Cashman. I thought that it would be nice to include a few things I found in the book about the way women were treated during this era. During the Gilded Age women began to enter the workforce more than ever before for everyone this was a turning point for
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In addition to this the “NLU attempted to address its conventions special problems of women and African Americans” (105 CASHMAN). Further more; the NLU went on to point out that women were “paid less and treated worse than men. The most significant protective society for women was the Working Women’s Protective Union” (105 CASHMAN). You can that many groups were trying to have their voice heard so that women were to be treated equally as men; this example; also shows that women were generally treated worse than men because of their …show more content…
The organization also lobbied for maximum hour and minimum wage laws” (151 EVANS). Even though there were many groups aimed at gaining women their equal rights like their male counterparts “between 1870 and 1910, four hundred and eight campaigns produced only seventeen reference and only two of those resulted in a victory for woman suffrage” (153 EVANS). Even though there were so many campaigns women still had a long way to go to gain equal rights and this road was a very hard road for all those involved in the
In addition to this the “NLU attempted to address its conventions special problems of women and African Americans” (105 CASHMAN). Further more; the NLU went on to point out that women were “paid less and treated worse than men. The most significant protective society for women was the Working Women’s Protective Union” (105 CASHMAN). You can that many groups were trying to have their voice heard so that women were to be treated equally as men; this example; also shows that women were generally treated worse than men because of their …show more content…
The organization also lobbied for maximum hour and minimum wage laws” (151 EVANS). Even though there were many groups aimed at gaining women their equal rights like their male counterparts “between 1870 and 1910, four hundred and eight campaigns produced only seventeen reference and only two of those resulted in a victory for woman suffrage” (153 EVANS). Even though there were so many campaigns women still had a long way to go to gain equal rights and this road was a very hard road for all those involved in the