What was life like in 1886 -1906?

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Economics, family life, and so forth

Answer 1

The Industrial revolution had transformed the way people worked, and by the late 1800s, huge numbers of people were working in factories, and there were many more offices too. There had been an increase in the forms of employment available to women, the invention of the typewriter led to many more women being employed in offices, as women were found to make better typists than men. Likewise, large numbers of women were employed as telephonists as they were found to have better telephone manners than men. There were still a great many small shops, but in the bigger towns large department stores were popular, being able to walk around and look at things was something even poor people could enjoy.



Schooling was available to all children, though it was still common for children to leave school early, most would leave at the age of twelve or thirteen, only a small minority went on to high school. An even smaller number went to college, it was only for a minority. Women had been going to college since the 1870s, they made up about a third of college students by 1880.



The poor lived in grim conditions in the cities, mostly in overcrowded tenement bulidings, with little sanitation. Jane Addams brought the settlement house movement to the USA, which helped to improve conditions for the poor.



Most people who could afford it employed servants, even a family of quite modest means might have a maid of all work, and a wealthy household might employ dozens. Working in domestic service was a very common form of employment, especially for women.



Indoor plumbing was still a luxury, most people had outside toilets, and water might come from an outside pump or tap. Bath would be taken in a tub in front of the fire, not surprisingly most people did not bathe as often as they do now, because filling and emptying a tub by hand was hard work, not something most people would have time or energy to do every day. People with servants would have hot water brought to their rooms in the morning and evenings for washing.



Transport was mainly by train, on foot, or in horsedrawn vehicles, but the bicycle became extremely popular from about 1890, it was ridden by both men and women. Automobiles began to apear at the end of the century, but they were very expensive and only the rich could afford them.



It was less common for young people to leave home and live on their own, daughters in particular were likely to stay at home with their parents until they married. Girls of upper and middle class families were usually chaperoned at social gathering, they were not supposed to be alone with young men. At dances, girls had dance programmes in which the dances were numbered, they would write the names of the young men they were going to dance with next to the numbers.

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Life In 1906

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Too many to mention, including women who work now in all sorts of jobs, industries and as homemakers. However, for public examples: Anzaldua, Gloria (Teacher; writer) Anthony, Susan B. 1820-1906 (Writer and activist). Black, Clementina (1850's-1923). (Writer, unionist, activist) Blackwell, Elizabeth (3/3/1821-5/31/1910). America's first woman doctor, was admitted to New York's Geneva College as a joke in 1847. She overcame taunts and prejudice while at medical school to earn her degree in 1849, graduating at the top of her class. After American hospitals refused to hire her, she opened a clinic in New York City where she was joined by her sister Dr. Emily Blackwell and Dr. Marie E. Zakrzewska. Bloomer, Amelia Jenks (1818-94). (Newspaper editor; social reformer) Chicago, Judy (born 1939). (Artist) Chopin, Kate (1851-1904). (Writer) Collins, Martha Layne (born 1963) Kentucky's first female governor and first woman to chair the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors. Cooper, Anna (Slave; teacher) Fox Keller, Evelyn (Physicist and Biologist) Friedan, Betty (born 1921) (Author; banker; public speaker; activist) Gilligan, Carol (Psychologist) Gilman, Charlotte (1860-1935) (Writer; social reformer - working conditions) Ginsburg, Ruth (born 1933) Director of Women's Rights project of the American Civil Liberties Union and argued many cases before the Supreme Court. Was appointed ot the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993. Kristeva, Julia (psychoanalyst) MacKinnon, Catherine A. (Lawyer) Mernissi, Fatima (Sociologist) Murphy, Emily (1886-1933). (Lawyer, writer; magistrate) O'Reily, Leonora (1870-1927) (Labour leader; reformer) Ortner, Sherry (Anthropologist) Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews (1875-1941) Born in the U.S.; sociologist and anthropologist. Her early writing concerned women's rights and she later became an advocate of human rights. She was the first woman elected president of American Anthropological Association. Sanger, Margaret (9/14/1883-9/6/1966). (Nurse; planned parenthood pioneer) Steinem, Gloria (born 1934).( Writer and editor) Strossen, Nadine (Professor of Law; ACLU) Truth, Sojourner (1797-1883). (Slave; activist) Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-97). (Writer) and Famous female/feminist engineers: Maria Sklodowska (Radioactivity: Nobel Prize Winner) Randi Altschul (Disposable cell phone/card patent) Patricia Billings (Geobond - fire resistant plaster) Martha Coston (Chemist - invented maritime signal flares) Edith Flanigen (Chemist with over 100 patents in petroleum products) Bette Nesmith Graham (Housewife; artist, inventor; entreprenour - invented liquid paper) Grace Hopper (Navy Admiral; Mathemetician; invented COBOL computer language) Stephanie Louise Kwolek (Chemist - invented Kevlar - used in bullet proof vests, underwater cables, brake linings, space vehicles, boats, parachutes, skis, and building materials.) Patsy Sherman (Chemist - invented Scotchguard) Ellen Ochoa (Electrical engineer - patents in robotic guidance systems; NASA astronaut) Mary Walton (Inventor - solved environmental hazards like smoke and noise pollution) and Diane Abbott, Labour MP In 1987 Diane Abbott made history by becoming the first black woman ever elected to the British Parliament. Samira Ahmed, Channel 4 News Presenter "Feminist is the first word I'd use to describe myself. It's the F-word I make a conscious effort to use whenever I can. Everything in my life of which I am most proud and which I hold most dear has come about because of feminism." Bill Bailey, Comedian "Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'" Joan Bakewell, Journalist "Feminism is alive and flourishing because inequalities between men and women are still rampant, in pay, in opportunities and in intimate relations between the sexes." Hilary Benn MP, International Development Secretary "We should be deeply concerned about and committed to tackling, the persisting inequalities between women and men which mean that too many women live in poverty and experience gender-based violence and too few women hold positions of influence and power." Cherie Booth QC Prominent barrister and wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, Cherie is supporting our campaign to reclaim feminism. Kierra Box, Youth Campaigner "In the words of Rebecca West, I think I'm just happy to be able to express sentiments which differentiate me from a doormat..." Alan Cumming, Actor Actor Alan Cumming helps Fawcett stand up for feminism. Brian Cox, Actor "Women are all layers. What men don¹t understand is that there is no centre to get to, but to appreciate the beauty and the mystery of the woman in all her layers." Tracy Chevalier, Author "Feminism means giving women the same opportunities as men. Simple as that. What’s not to like?" Ade Edmondson, Comedian "Most of the feminists I know are men. Feminists – underneath we’re all the same." Tanika Gupta, Screenwriter "I am happy to be a feminist because I have always believed whole heartedly in womens equality in the home, the workplace, politics and in society." Harriet Harman QC MP In 2005 Harriet was appointed Minister for Justice at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, and is running for Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party. Kate Jackson, Lead singer of The Long Blondes Fronted by Kate, Sheffield band The Long Blondes have rocked the British indie scene. Patrick Stewart, Actor "I am doing this for my Mother who earned 3 pounds10 shillings for working a forty hour week in a weaving shed." Sarah Smith, Presenter of More 4 News "To call oneself a feminist is not to declare that you are in conflict or competition with anyone else in society. It says only that you believe in equal rights, equal pay and are prepared to stand against discrimination wherever you find it. We should all be proud to call ourselves feminists." That's just some - but there are thousands and thousands who won't become famous - they just work away at whatever they're talented at.