Women’s roles began to transform with the onset of industrialization. These roles provided more opportunity for women.

Women’s ReformUnit 7

#2Women’s roles began to transform with the onset

of industrialization. These roles provided more opportunity for women.

Changing RolesThe Poor

• Many of the women in poor families and in poor communities found work in industry/factories

• These women were paid far less than the men that work in the same job.

Higher Education• All women colleges started to appear• Vassar & Smith and Wellesley• Brown, Harvard, & Columbia still refused to

admit women, but opened separate colleges for women

ReformSeneca Falls Convention

Started in 1848 to give more rights to Blacks and Women (split over the 14th and 15th amendments because women left out)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. AnthonyFounded the National American Women’s

Suffrage Association

Suffrage Strategy- Push state legislatures to write laws allowing women to vote- Pursued court cases pushing their status as citizens entitled

to vote- Pushed for a Constitutional Amendment allowing women the

right to vote

SUFFRAGE = THE RIGHT TO VOTE