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Role of Women
What problem did it pose for middle class women |
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In the home
Nurturing environment for children and husband
They had to go out and work
Tough to get employment
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| University was closed to women |
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| What happened to property rights and women's wages when she married? |
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Definition
| All of it was placed under her husband's control |
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| Why were women not allowed to vote? |
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Definition
| Considered far outside their sphere |
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| What role did the Church play in the 1870s and 80s? |
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| Early Christian Women's associations started popping up |
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| What effect did industrialization have on middle class men and women? |
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Definition
| Made poverty more visible |
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YWCA
What is is and who did it cater to? |
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Young Women's Chritsian Association
Safeguarded young working-class women |
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Women's Christian Temperence Union
Use and abuse of alcohol
Main cause for wife abuse
Major cause for women and children living in poverty |
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Highlights reasons why women aren't ready for the vote
Why women aren't ready for the workplace
Marriage is the only thing that's open to them |
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| Why was the WCTU considered racist? |
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Definition
| They highlighted the unfairness of immigrant men being able to vote while white women were not |
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Women saw it as an opportunity to show they could do their part for Britain
Took non-traditional jobs on the homefront so men could fight overseas |
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| Wartime Elections act (1917) |
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Gave vote to Wives and Mothers of soldiers fighting overseas
Took it away from immigrants from enemy countries since 1902 |
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| When did non-mothers and wives of soldiers receive the vote? |
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