Title: Nerdfighteria Wiki - Women's Suffrage: Crash Course US History #31
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Women's Suffrage: Crash Course US History #31
Introduction
Economic and Political Opportunities for Women
Role as Primary Consumers
Women in the Workplace
The Mystery Document
Female Sexuality and the Introduction of Birth Control
The Settlement House Movement
Thought Bubble: Women's Suffrage Movement
The 19th Amendment
Conclusion
Credits

Content: And in the Progressive Era, they demanded to be seen as full citizens of the United States. In short, women don't exist to be your joie de vivre - they get to have their own joie de vivre. (Intro)
So it's tempting to limit ourselves to discussion of women getting the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment but if we focus too much on the constitutional history, we're going to miss a lot. Economic and Political Opportunities for Women
Some historians refer to the thirty years between 1890 and 1920 as the "Women's Era" because it was in that time that women started to have greater economic and political opportunities. Women were also aided by legal changes like getting the right to own property, control their wages and make contracts and wills. By 1900, almost 5 million women worked for wages, mainly in domestic service or light manufacturing like the garment industry. Women in America were always vital contributors to the economy as producers and consumers and they always worked, whether for wages or taking care of children and the home. And as someone who is recently returned from paternity leave, let me tell you - that ain't no joke. And American women were also active as reformers since, like, America became a thing. And those reform movements brought women into state and national politics before the dawn of the Progressive Era.