The changing roles of Women

By: Dzemila Muskic and Jasmine Kole

1880 1908 1917

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1900

1879 1910

1870

• Food• Nearly 2 million females worked outside the

homes• Typewriter

1873

• Edward H. Clarke warned that young women could not engage in studying and learning while retaining “uninjured health and a future secure from sickness, hysteria, and other derangements of the nervous system”

• The Association of the Advancement of Women’s Clubs

1874

• Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

1880

• Carpet sweeper

1879

• Chain stores

1890

• National American Women Suffrage Association

• General Federation of Women’s Clubs

1896

• Rural Free Delivery (RFD)

1900

• Fewer woman made own food

1905

• Delivering mail on over 32000 RFD routes

1908

• The Cost of Cleanliness

• Electric vacuums

1910

• Quick cereals and factory-made biscuits

1917

• Only a quarter of homes had electricity