Women During 1890-1920

Women During 1890-1920

During the Progressive Era, women played more active roles in the larger economic, cultural, and political transformation of American society. This growth in women's public roles allowed suffragists to be more aggressive in support of their cause as they developed stronger bases of support in the settlement houses, temperance organizations, labor unions, and reform movements that now sprang up across the country. The National American Women's Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, fought for suffrage using parades, street speakers, petitions, and rallies.

In the book Born of Liberty by Sara Evans talked about 1900-1918 was the time that America was completing its rapid shift from an agrarian to an urban society. This caused major anxiety among the country's because it introduced "disturbing" changes in their society.As the growing middle class base of the woman's rights movement shifted suffrage from the periphery of women's organized activities toward mainstream, suffrage advocates increasingly with the class and race prejudices of white middle class. 

Also the Evans text mentioned that the working conditions continued to be extremely dangerous and work hours very long. Pay was also low which made the whole situation even more worst. However, as more factories opened and businesses women got the change to have work more and get paid. Trade union women brought together around thirty women's organizations in Illinois Women's Alliance between 1888 and 1894. They worked in factory inspections by women and new programs arose. Women are really trying to take every opportunity to prove themselves more and more. They are trying to become as equal as possible with men to have equal rights in voting and any decisions in and out of their homes.