Category: Florence Kelley

Women were not as free as today, in the United States, compared to the 19th century. Women had no freedom to do anything of their own and were considered as someone who would is expected to provide service and pleasure to men while taking on a domestic lifestyle at home. They were restricted to their…

The Progressive era was an era in which many people were standing up for what they believed in and starting organizations dedicated to what they wanted to change. Problems were being addressed mainly in the labor work force, women’s suffrage and in African Americans lives. Thankfully a lot of great women were in this era,…

In the time period before the Civil War moral reformers and the state of the working financial industry combined to lead many Americans to imagine separate spheres of activity for men and women. Most women of European descent lived lives similar to their European counterparts. They were legally and socially subservient to men they were…