The issue of women driving automobiles in America has been a topic of concern and interest. Naturally, women would stay home and cook or clean and do house chores. However, ever since automobiles came out, women started to explore and reach out more than just house chores. Women started to go out for shopping, dropping the young ones to school, business tasks and many more. Hence, after the automobile came out many of the healthy higher-class women started to buy them. Hence, it is giving women more advantages to go out of the house and have jobs. My research question is: What were the effects of the automobiles on women?
My research has at this time been limited to six printed sources only. Of primary importance in my investigation has been in the article “Gender and the Automobile in the United States” by Margaret Walsh talks about both men and women’s involvement and roles in automobiles. Another article, “The Automobile Shapes The City” by Martin V. Melosi, in which it gives us information about electric streetlights, cities and urban …show more content…
Of equal importance has been the article by James M. Henslin; “Effects of the Automobile” discusses eight important effects of the automobile. The eight important effects are old technology which is the horse, second technology which is the urban transit with electric streetcar lines, changed the shape