Insidious Assault The beliefs, events, and women’s rights activists in the Gilded Age have a direct effect on modern day society. In the Gilded Age, groups such as WTCU, NWSA, and AWSA made strides towards women’s rights. Historically during this time, it was still common for the rights of women to limited and suppressed, such as suffrage. However, the ability for females to obtain work was on the rise. Many American males were threatened in the area of gaining employment. With employers actively choosing females over males a lot of Americans and members of the American Federation of Labor felt as though women’s rights and acquisition of work were somehow the beginning to the demise of society. In 1886 the American Federation of Labor(AFL), made up of an alliance of craft unions, was created and led by Samuel Gompers. It was Gompers’ and his associates’ beliefs that work conditions could be improved with capitalism. This union rejected and excluded women and other unskilled workers. They believed that “women would depress wages and should stay at home...”
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O’Donnell believed that women progressing into fields predominately occupied by men was not of the desire to promote the welfare of others. O’Donnell definitely had an agenda in the aforementioned article, and effectively used persuasive literal tactics to capture the attention of his fellow man, alerting them of what he believed was not a natural sequence or what was best for
O’Donnell believed that women progressing into fields predominately occupied by men was not of the desire to promote the welfare of others. O’Donnell definitely had an agenda in the aforementioned article, and effectively used persuasive literal tactics to capture the attention of his fellow man, alerting them of what he believed was not a natural sequence or what was best for