The roles of women changed dramatically
between the late 1800s and the early 1900s and continues to change
even today, due to the first African-American President, Barack
Obama; however, men are still the dominant gender in politics today
but women continues to strive and progress as a community.
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| Newsies selling newspapers in 1908. |
The decade that I will be focusing on
for this post will be the 1800s and a lot of domestication happened during the era as well as the successful Newsboys Strike of 1899. When the Newsies took another stand against newspaper moguls, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst who rose the prices of their newspapers for the Newsies to sell, they fought for the right to be treated as valuable members of the company. Also, In 1899 was the birth of Fred Astaire who became one of Hollywood's Greatest Stars in his later life.
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| Bly posing for a picture. |
During the 1800s, women were domesticated and couldn't have a say in how they receive their inheritance, but it's people like Nellie Bly who paved the way for the future of women in the United States. She questioned the topic to get to the bottom of the story by using the basic (who, what, when, where, why, and how) tools. Nellie went undercover at a women's mental institution to find out what happens to the women inside and what the condition of the place was; however, Nellie Bly is only one success story of the 1800s because most women did not have the privilege to an education like we have today. It was only women of the upper class who could receive a basic education. They learned how to read and write. They also learned arithmetic, which is basically just basic mathematics.
Women during the 1800s had no rights and everything that they inherited from their parents were owned by their husbands but it was the children that got abused, even to death.
By doing research on the roles of women throughout the decades really opened me up as a writer. I found out that they had it rough during the 1800s. They were mainly seen as property and often saw physical abuse between father and child. I really found it heard to believe that they saw things that no one should be seeing. As a writer, the roles of women is something that should be talked about in books and magazines more often.
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