The Role Of Women During The 19th Century

The role of women during the 19th century was important and was undergoing many changes because of the start of the women’s right movement. Additionally, the women’s role in society was very different from all of the other countries in Europe because of the political situation of the country. Women still had many restrictions and a good woman was considered someone who stayed at home and obeyed her husband. Therefore, women were not allowed to attend high school until 1850’s, In addition, upper class women knew about art, music and writing but they were not allowed to publish any books, and if they did published something, their work was not taken seriously by the men who saw women as less than men in every aspect including intellectually.
During the 19th century women were able to have a job an earn a minimum wage as factory workers, servants, midwives and teachers. There were not some many positions for women during the 1800’s which led to many feminist women of the era fight and demand more employment opportunities as well as better payments. Additionally, women fought for many other rights,f for example, the right to own property , to live far from their husbands, and especially they fought for equality because they wanted to be seen as equal to men
Women did not have as many rights as men and the law would usually benefit the man instead of the woman because there were many difficulties to obtain divorce and prosecute rape and domestic violence. During the 1800’s women had bery few rights because the victim was held responsible when presenting a case against any rape or domestic violence. Therefore, women had to bear many abuses, shuch as rape from the father-in-law and domestic violence from the husband because men regarded women as less powerfull and they felt they had the right to beat women when they felt, women deserved it.