During the Progressive era, feminist used orthodox forms of womanhood, which included all women as housewives, to warrant their acceptance into sisterhood provinces: as "municipal housekeepers," they would refine politics, cities, and oversee the health and wellbeing of their neighbors. Feminist abstrusely examined their provinces needs and used their "maternal" proficiency to lobby, establish, and …show more content…
She was one of the pioneer social workers at the time, she was a well renown leader of the community activists at Hull House in Chicago. Adjacent to presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, she was one the most protrusive reformers of the Progressive Era. She drew attention to issues of concern to mothers, children, and public health. She said if women were to be censurable for cleansing and forming better provinces to live, they essentially had to make the vote effective. Addams became the epitome for proletariat women who proffered to improve their communities. In 1931 she had become the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the United