The changing roles of Women
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The changing roles of Women
By: Dzemila Muskic and Jasmine Kole
1880 1908 1917
190518961870
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1874
1900
1879 1910
1870
• Food• Nearly 2 million females worked outside the
homes• Typewriter
1873
• Edward H. Clarke warned that young women could not engage in studying and learning while retaining “uninjured health and a future secure from sickness, hysteria, and other derangements of the nervous system”
• The Association of the Advancement of Women’s Clubs
1874
• Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
1880
• Carpet sweeper
1879
• Chain stores
1890
• National American Women Suffrage Association
• General Federation of Women’s Clubs
1896
• Rural Free Delivery (RFD)
1900
• Fewer woman made own food
1905
• Delivering mail on over 32000 RFD routes
1908
• The Cost of Cleanliness
• Electric vacuums
1910
• Quick cereals and factory-made biscuits
1917
• Only a quarter of homes had electricity