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PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

THE WOMENS MOVEMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Many careers were closed to women. They had to struggle to work in some professions. Two examples were ____ and the ministry, the profession of religious leadership. In the 1800’s, a few women began to break through these barriers.
A
medicine
B
house keeping
C
factory workers
D
parenting
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Women and work in the 19th century They worked either in factories, or in domestic service for richer households or in family businesses. Many women also carried out home-based work such as finishing garments and shoes for factories, laundry, or preparation of snacks to sell in the market or streets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Women did not have the power to make contracts, own property or vote. A woman was seen merely as a servant to her husband. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, that began to change when many bold, outspoken women championed social reforms of prisons, war, alcohol and slavery.

Detailed explanation-3: -Women cannot be made to work more than 48 hours in a week. Women must get one day off in a week. Women cannot be made to work for more than 5 hours at a stretch. Women cannot be made to work only between 6 in the morning and 7 in the evening.

Detailed explanation-4: -By the mid-1800s, women started to fight back, demanding suffrage, or the right to vote. These women were called suffragists.

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