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Industrial Revolution Working Conditions
Women earned very low wages in factories. Mothers of infants faced the hard choice of leaving their babies with nurses (great expense and danger) or bringing them drugged into the factory. Women also earned significantly lower wages than men. -
Women In Business
With industrialization came the removal of middle-class women from contact with the business world. They instead became responsible for the home, servants, and children. -
The American Revolution
Women in America participated in revolutionary politics by organizing relief and leading boycotts. They began to spin textiles at home as an act of patriotism. Nevertheless, they were still denied political rights. -
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Women like Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the first feminnist manifesto to speak out against the change in women's roles during the Industrial Revolution. -
The Terror
Active feminists of the Parisian middle class and the working class lost ground. The National Convention, a legislative body, repressed the militant feminist forces who sought the right to bear arms. -
Ottoman Reform
Competition in the Ottoman economy drove women from the work force. Traditional women's work was increasingly mechanized or done by men. -
Roles of Native Latin American Women
New technologies improved efficiency of buffalo hunt & reduced the plains people's dependence on agriculture. Women, who normally raised crops, lost prestige & social power to male hunters. -
Loss of Property Rights in Ottoman Empire
Throughout the 1820s, the role of religion starts to decline within the Ottoman Empire. This is harmful to the rights of women, because previously, they had the right to own property due to Islamic laws. With the decrease of relgious influence, women also lose their rights to own property. -
Widow Burning Outlawed
The custom of sati in India, where windows must burn on their husbands' funeral pyres is outlawed. This is another step in the progressive rights of women. -
Labor Movements
Working class women were not welcome to voice their ideas or opinions in the male-dominated trade unions or radical political parties. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The first Woman's Rights Convention is held in Seneca Falls New York. "The Declaration of Sentiments" is written which highlights the grievances of women suffrage. -
The Start of the Victorian Age
This is an age where there are specific rules of behavior and a new ideology surrounding the role of men and women. Wives were in charge of taking care of the houshold and children and improving the family's social status. -
Helene Demuth Bears a Son by Karl Marx
Helene Demuth, a domestic servant, worked for Karl and Jenny Marx. Her case exemplifies the amount of sexual abuse that occured with working class women after Industrialization. Women suffered through many hardships during this time through overworking, mistreatment, and low wages. -
Legislation Passed Protecting Working Conditions
A Parlimentary Act is passed regarding conditions of labor. Around this time period, other legislations are passed limiting the hours or forbidding the dangerous and harsh employment of women. This is in reponse to the extreme abuses and bad conditions that women found in work. -
Black Men Given Right to Vote
After the Civil War in America, black men are given the right to vote. This is significant because it angers the women in the country because at this time they still do not have the right to vote. -
Women in Britain Earn Voting Rights
Britain gives unmarried women who are property owners the right to vote in local elections, through the Municipal Franchise Act. -
National Woman Suffrage Association Formed
The efforts of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton resulted in voting rights for American women. -
The End of Footbinding
Christian influence in the Qing empire condemns the practice of footbinding. In 1874, 60 Christian women in Xiamen called for an end to this traditional practice. Footbinding was offically outlawed in the early 1900s. -
Mary Slessor Arrives in West Africa
Mary Slessor was a Christian missionary who went to Nigeria. She campaigned agianst slavery, human sacrifice, the killing of twins and other women's rights. -
Women Find Religious Work Overseas
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, many women joined missionary societies and traveled overseas in order to obtain positions with greater authory than they could have at home. Their influence softened the extremity of colonial rule, which oftentimes could be harsh.
