Essay On Women In The 1900's

Women today have flourished despite years of continuous setbacks. Women today have the right to be whoever they please, a teacher, a doctor, a CEO of a big company, and even run for presidency. These ideals would have been a crazy notion in the 1870’s where women were considered inferior to men. But women are so much more than that, and they showed that through hard work and dedication they could accomplish what men could, however this process would not be any easy one. Women were fighting for equality among the workplace, and fighting for equal rights as those of men. From the late 1800’s and up to the early 1900’s women’s social, political, and economic conditions changed drastically from very minimal and almost nonexistent to a drastic increase. …show more content…
However these jobs were mostly worked by women who were not yet married and once they were married their spouse was to go to work and earn the wages while women were to take care of the house. Education for women did not start escalating until the late 1870’s where women had more time to pursue careers and education while their husbands were working and the children were off at school. Women’s participation in college nearly doubled to 40 percent in the early 1900’s. Since women were able to obtain higher education, and with more free time around the house they were able to pursue their own interest. Many women were involved in charities, and/or social reforms. Many of these women would devote their lives to the Temperance movement and women’s suffrage in hopes of making a better future for themselves and their daughters. One of the most historical causes was the Temperance movement which was against the consumption of alcohol, or alcoholic beverages. One of the leaders in the crediting of starting this movement was a man named Lyman Beecher, who started the fight against the consumption of alcohol in 1825. The reason being that these women were so