Women's Roles

Workplace

21

These long work shifts often lasted this many hours per day.

12 to 16 hours

41

This industry employed the largest number of women during the Industrial Revolution.

textile industry

67

Factory owners preferred hiring women partly because they could pay them this.

lower wages

Home & Family

21

Industrialization caused families to move to these areas for work.

Urban areas

41

Before industrialization, most women worked in this location.

Home

67

This belief divided men and women into public and private roles.

The Cult of Domesticity, Separate Spheres Ideology

Wages and Work

21

This type of work involved cooking, cleaning, and caring for households.

Domestic service 

41

Women were usually paid less than this group for the same work.

Men

67

Many women’s wages were essential to support this group.

Their Family

Reform

21

This movement aimed to improve working conditions and wages.

Labor reform movements

41

Women pushed for laws to limit this practice involving young workers.

Child Labor

67

Women’s reform efforts helped lead to this later political right.

Women's suffrage

Vocabulary and Concept

21

This term describes work done for pay outside the home.

Wage Labor

41

The shift from hand production to machine-based manufacturing.

Industrialization

67

The idea that women were morally superior and responsible for family values.

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