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Francis Cabot Lowell first establishes the Mills - textile factories powered by water - in 1813, and soon employs mostly women between the ages of 15-35
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In response to the Ten Hours Movement, women who worked in the mills created an organization to protest their terrible conditions. They staged a walk out of 2,500 women (because their boardinghouses, organized by the Mills, were overcharging them). After several months, the girls succeeded and their boardinghouse costs were reduced.
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Banned women and children from going down and working in mines
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Limits the working hours of women to ten hours in all situations
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**Restricts the hours of women and children to ten hours
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Another organization is established to try and restrict the hours of labor. Led by organizer Mary Emerson, it lasted for two years.
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First women's rights convention in the United States. Declared that they were anti-slavery and calling for the right for women to vote.
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**But only in NY and Maryland, and only if they were married
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**But only in Illinois and Massachusetts
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Allowed women to legally own the money and property they had earned (Previously, any money would've gone to the husband)
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Susan B. Anthony, women's rights activist, attempted to vote in the 1872 election. She was arrested and fined, which she never paid.
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Prohibits factory owners from forcing women to work immediately after giving birth (4 weeks)
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"Mother Jones," a labor activist, helped children stage a walkout of mills to protest their working conditions, which included harmed hands and disabilities caused by the mills.
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The first major organization in Britain, organized by Emmeline Pankhurst, which was involved in direct action against the government.
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In New York City, a factory that was packed with people - particularly women - caught fire. 146 people (123 of them female) died. They could not escape because the doors and exits were all blocked to keep people inside while working (and to keep them from taking breaks). This led to reformed labor laws to protect the workers.
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Women replace men at home in the jobs that were needed (factory workers, firefighters, police officers, etc.)
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Women could vote at 30 if they owned property or graduated from a UK university (men could vote at 21 no matter what)
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Women were thrown out of the work force, and if they stayed, it was determined that women should NOT make as much as men even though they did the same jobs, because it was the mans job to support the family.
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In the US, the 19th Amendment passed after nearly 100 years of work on it. The amendment, however, did not fully give the right to vote - minority women were kept out, especially Native American and Black women.
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No qualifications!
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Prohibits discrimination in wages - must be equal pay for equal work within the same workplace.
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Gives women the right to open their own credit cards in the United States