In south / Midwest women’s roles did not change
Women were excluded from labor unions
Received half the pay that men did
1890: Women outnumber men in achieving a high school graduation
Women without education / industrial skills did domestic work
Percentage of women working as servants in 1890
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory 1911
Faculty:
8 Men
22 Women
Vassar is the first female college
NACW
Women could not hold political office.
Idaho
Colorado
Wyoming first state to let women vote
Supreme Court decides women are citizens but no right to vote
Women fight and fail for 41 years to gain suffrage