Title: Women in the Workforce - The Progressive Era and Women's Reform
Headings: The Progressive Era and Women's Reform

Content: 4] It could also inhibit the union organization. Additionally women who tried to achieve higher positions in factories met opposition. “ Thus the women who sought to expand their opportunities for employment in the early twentieth century faced double opposition-from hostile male co-workers and from well-meaning but perhaps misguided women reformers.” [ 5]
Conclusively throughout the progressive era many changes occurred. These were largely fueled by unionist organizations such as the ILGWU, and WTUL. These organizations contributed to the structure of governmental regulation of industry. On a larger scale these changes in the work place during the era also helped spark the women’s suffrage movement occurring in society at the same time. As a lasting monument toward these organizations many of the equal rights conditions set precedents for further humane conditions in our current time. Women in Work in the Early 2oth Century
Review by: Lynne Withey
Reviews in American History , Vol.