Progressivism, or the act of making progress, opened the eyes of many women. At the time, in most states, “many women could not vote, they almost never held public office, and the few professions they could hold were primarily female (Brinkley 2015, 556).” The culture of the time believed that women were not suited for the public world, resulting in the “new woman” to rise. Due to the fact that children were spending more time in school and several technological advances, the home was no longer a place that seemed to consume women. During the 1880s and 1890s, women’s clubs were becoming a large part in women’s public roles. These clubs, for the most part, never raised any controversial ideas but simply began providing an outlet for intellectual
