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Mar 2, 2018 · For a historian, women’s suffrage is the equivalent of the Eagles’ “Hotel California”: a song you loved the first few times you first heard it, until you realized it was hopelessly overplayed.
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- Tamara Gane
- We’ve come a long way. It’s hard to imagine a time in this country when women didn’t have some of the basic rights they have today, but it wasn’t all that long ago that things were very different.
- Vote. Today, you might mail in your ballot or cast your vote in the booth for the politician of your choice, but there was a time not all that long ago when women wouldn’t have been allowed to exercise this simple right.
- Easily obtain birth control. Women today are free to use birth control if they wish, or forgo it if they don’t. It’s their choice. But this wasn’t always the case.
- Divorce. Early in U.S. history, divorce was a tricky situation, especially if you happened to be a woman. Each state had different rules, and judges were allowed to exercise their own discretion when it came to the final decision as to whether or not a divorce would be granted.
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- Overview of Women's Experience Through History
- The Changing Experience of Women Through History
- Women in Ancient Times
- Women and The Church in Medieval Europe
- Women in Medieval Medicine
- Women in Modern History
In this article, we will look at: 1. women in ancient times, 2. women in the Middle Ages (in church and medicine), and 3. women in modern history, including the 20th-century feminist revolution.
Ancient history records many strong female figures, rulers and warriors who did deeds the history-writers thought worthy of recording. Cleopatra, Boudicca, Esther. Their names echo from history to the present day. Still, throughout history, women have had vastly different experiences in different times. Some societies had women who were warriors, p...
Women enjoy a better level of equality in present-day Western societies than at any time in history that we know of. Unfortunately, the further back in history you go, the less consistent equality for women you'll see. Although we often think of history developing in a straight line, the truth is not so simple. In fact, over time, women have gained...
In the early Christian church, there is evidence that women held positions of influence equal to men. This was particularly true of Gnostic Christianity in the first and second centuries AD when female bishops were appointed. As sensationalised in the Da Vinci Code, there are indications that Mary Magdalene was once a significant religious leader o...
The treatment of women in medieval medicine also reveals stark and fatal inequality. Women were traditionally herbal healers, and their wisdom was invaluable in a world without modern medicine. Often, they gave their help to friends and neighbours freely or in exchange for small items. But as the middle ages wore on, men began to muscle in on what ...
Modern history is generally seen as beginning in the late 1500s with the Renaissance. While the Renaissance artists painted beautiful female nudes, their depictions did nothing to affect women's rights or improve their experience. If anything, a woman's role became more deeply defined as a homemaker and nothing else. Across Europe, women could not ...
- Farm laborers. - Total female employment: 890,230. Nearly a third of all Americans worked on farms a century ago, when the farm population numbered almost 32 million, according to U.S. Census data.
- Servants. - Total female employment: 743,515. Fitting traditional roles, women had options to be domestic servants, such as housekeepers, housemaids who had lower status, governesses, nannies, and nursery maids.
- Teachers. - Total female employment: 639,241. Teaching was considered an acceptable job for women, but the wages were terrible and conditions difficult.
- Stenographers and typists. - Total female employment: 564,744. Stenographers used shorthand to take down dictation, and typists wrote it up, typically in groups or pools, and speed was critical.
After analyzing how earlier generations set the stage for women's centrality in the 1890s, she depicts the first forty years of Florence Kelley's life, telling of her childhood as a member of an elite Philadelphia family, her graduation from Cornell University in 1882, her immersion in European socialism, her search for a meaningful place ...
May 25, 2012 · Just to give you a sense of change over time, the primary causes of death for women in 1900 were tuberculosis and childbirth. Today it is heart disease. Another striking historical comparison: the average age at death for women in 1900 was 48 and today it is 80.
"The Female Aesthetic." In A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing, pp. 240-62. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977. Source for information on Women in the Early to Mid-20th Century (1900-1960): Women and the Arts: Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion dictionary.
