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The United States from 1877 to 1914Key feminist goals, 19th
century
• Right to vote• Abolition of “coverture”• Legal independence• Right to equal
education• Right to protection
against violence within and beyond marriage
• Right to not have sex
The United States from 1877 to 1914
“This hour belongs to the Negro.”
Frederick Douglas“Do you believe the African race is composed entirely of males?”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The United States from 1877 to 1914
“Women first and Negro last; that is my program.”George Francis
Train
The United States from 1877 to 1914
• National Woman Suffrage Association; Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; strategy: work outside the Republican party
• American Women Suffrage Association; Lucy Stone; strategy: work within the Republican party
1869
The United States from 1877 to 1914
• 1900:• 5,319,000 women
worked for wages• 932,000 in clothing
or textile mills• 2 million women
worked as domestic servants
The United States from 1877 to 1914
Women’s suffrage map
The United States from 1877 to 1914
“It is a risk, a danger to a country like ours to send 1,000,000 men out of the country who are loyal and not replace those men by the loyal values of the women they have left at home.”
Carrie Chapman Catt
The United States from 1877 to 1914
UN Resolutions for Women’s Rights as of 1995
• 193 countries in the world• 139 countries ratified Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination • 127 ratified Equal Pay for Equal Value • 126 ratified Equality in Employment • 105 ratified Equal Political Rights • 44 ratified Equal Marriage Rights
Women...A World Survey, 1995, World Priorities, by Ruth Leger Sivard
The United States from 1877 to 1914
Female Education as a Percent of Male Education, 1995
Literacy Rate
Elementary
Secondary
Higher Education
Average
Latin America 97 95 106 89 97
Middle East 75 86 71 64 74
South Asia 57 73 58 45 58
Far East 84 90 85 68 82
Oceania 81 86 81 47 74
Africa 69 82 78 54 71
Women...A World Survey, 1995, World Priorities, by Ruth Leger Sivard