Documentary: Women during the Progressive Era
During the Progressive Era, male figures such as Theodore Roosevelt and Upton Sinclair where the main focus as they did indeed change America for the better. However men should not take all the credit as women too brought change. Many people do not understand that women were the driving force behind most progressive reforms as they impacted the Progressive Era greatly by creating many luxuries that we take for granted today such as: clean water, hot lunches at schools, community playgrounds, fire codes for office buildings, public libraries and so on. As women began to find themselves excluded by active barriers of law and prejudice, many were unable to establish themselves as Physicians, lawyers, engineers, scientist, resulting in them taking a less prominent role in society. They begun to primarily work with other women or with children in jobs such as teaching or nursing. At the end of the nineteenth century, “women were considered the moral guardians and protectors of home”(Cohen) During the Progressive Era, female reformers use …show more content…
As female do make up more than 50 percent of the population, women felt that they have the ability to make a difference in the world. Unlike Men who are mostly hot headed and cold hearted, women have this special sensitivity to bring to the world of politics. With maternal instinct and their calming, their peaceful influence could make notion of war a thing of the past. Not just the U.S would triumph from this suffrage movement but the whole world. Now in the 21st century, women shows that have a prominent role in society as there not second class citizens anymore. More and more female show they have the abilities as men and they can do as much as they can. As time goes on, Women become more powerful in the political world as now there might even be a female president….
During the Progressive Era, male figures such as Theodore Roosevelt and Upton Sinclair where the main focus as they did indeed change America for the better. However men should not take all the credit as women too brought change. Many people do not understand that women were the driving force behind most progressive reforms as they impacted the Progressive Era greatly by creating many luxuries that we take for granted today such as: clean water, hot lunches at schools, community playgrounds, fire codes for office buildings, public libraries and so on. As women began to find themselves excluded by active barriers of law and prejudice, many were unable to establish themselves as Physicians, lawyers, engineers, scientist, resulting in them taking a less prominent role in society. They begun to primarily work with other women or with children in jobs such as teaching or nursing. At the end of the nineteenth century, “women were considered the moral guardians and protectors of home”(Cohen) During the Progressive Era, female reformers use …show more content…
As female do make up more than 50 percent of the population, women felt that they have the ability to make a difference in the world. Unlike Men who are mostly hot headed and cold hearted, women have this special sensitivity to bring to the world of politics. With maternal instinct and their calming, their peaceful influence could make notion of war a thing of the past. Not just the U.S would triumph from this suffrage movement but the whole world. Now in the 21st century, women shows that have a prominent role in society as there not second class citizens anymore. More and more female show they have the abilities as men and they can do as much as they can. As time goes on, Women become more powerful in the political world as now there might even be a female president….