Industrialization Of Women In The 19th Century
You find yourself staring at the clock in a factory somewhere up North. You hear the roar of the machine, but pay no need to it as you dream of all the things you could be doing instead of occasionally repairing the machine. The machine breaks, you sign as you get up to fix it. The whistle soon blows as you look to all the tired women heading back to the women’s dorm, you decide to join them as you need all the rest you can get. Women are always thought of as weaker both in mentality and physicality. The industrial age, in America around the early 19th century, was a new found way for the rich to make money. The rich founded the factory system and exploited women and children to make tremendous profits. Discrimination of the sexes caused women
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Young women were sent away to factories to work to support their families. The typical “factory girl” worked six days a week, earning a pittance for dreary, limb-numbing, earsplitting stints of twelve or thirteen hours. Also women figured out that they got paid less than men for working at the factory. This lead to the formation of labor unions to improve the conditions of factories and higher pay. Unfortunately the labor unions were ineffective due to anti-slavery campaigns and mass immigration. Protest prove ineffective due to the amount of people looking for job, so people could easily be replaced. Most women didn’t work in factories during this time and women like Catharine Beecher urged women to enter the teaching profession and succeeded while men left the occupation making the job feminized. About 10% of women were working for pay outside their own homes in 1850. Household wives led to belief that women belonged in the household so they can maintain and influence the family or cult of domesticity. Birth rates started to drop in the 19th century as women became more independent. Women later earned a new assertive role in the family called domestic feminism, which signifies the growth of independence in women. Factories created a new cause for women to come together and fight for equality; also women started becoming more independent in the household as they started to secure more jobs for women and control the
Young women were sent away to factories to work to support their families. The typical “factory girl” worked six days a week, earning a pittance for dreary, limb-numbing, earsplitting stints of twelve or thirteen hours. Also women figured out that they got paid less than men for working at the factory. This lead to the formation of labor unions to improve the conditions of factories and higher pay. Unfortunately the labor unions were ineffective due to anti-slavery campaigns and mass immigration. Protest prove ineffective due to the amount of people looking for job, so people could easily be replaced. Most women didn’t work in factories during this time and women like Catharine Beecher urged women to enter the teaching profession and succeeded while men left the occupation making the job feminized. About 10% of women were working for pay outside their own homes in 1850. Household wives led to belief that women belonged in the household so they can maintain and influence the family or cult of domesticity. Birth rates started to drop in the 19th century as women became more independent. Women later earned a new assertive role in the family called domestic feminism, which signifies the growth of independence in women. Factories created a new cause for women to come together and fight for equality; also women started becoming more independent in the household as they started to secure more jobs for women and control the