Title: 20th Century History / Womens Rights
Headings: Womens Rights
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Womens Rights
American Women's Rights in the 20th Century
The 60's and the 70's
The 80's and the 90's
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American Women's Rights in the 20th Century
1900-1909
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In the 1900s suffragettes developed a new strategy. They began trying to get young women who were just out of college to join their cause. Ma ny of these new women had faced discrimination to be able to attend college and were familiar with it. Most of them were not married yet so they had more time that they could use on the suffrage movement than some of the older women who had to take care of their kids. [
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In the Fall of 1909 the workers from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (mostly immigrant women) went on strike. They went on strike because they had to work 7 days a week, 7 am to 8 pm. [
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The workers were payed only about $6 to $7 per week. The workers were allowed one half-hour lunch break. They were locked inside the factory so that they would not take more breaks or steal the materials.