Answer the below questions regarding the discussion topic.
In the early decades of the 20th century, a great shift occurred in women’s roles, as more women took to the public sphere to advocate for change. The Progressive era reform movements relied on an increase in college-educated “New Women” and a growth in the number of women in the labor force. Many of these reform movements centered on improving the lives of women as laborers, citizens, consumers, and members of the family.
But many also relied on a politics of exclusion, as white middle and upper-class reformers sometimes advocated for their rights at the expense of others. By 1920, the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment granting suffrage signaled a new era for women. The suffrage movement benefitted greatly from Progressive era reform movements pushing for inclusion in the male-dominated public and political sphere.
Choose the following Progressive era reform movements to focus on:
“Public housekeeping” reform
African American women’s clubs and societies
How did the groups above unite or divide women in pursuit of their agenda and vision of American womanhood?
