Category: Florence Kelley

Women’s First Steps in the Struggle for Equal Rights and Freedoms 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…

Contribution of Florence Kelly, Jane Addams and Elizabeth Cady Stanton To Women Today 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, womens suffrage and in…

The Embodiment of the Ideology of Republican Motherhood in the Women’s Movements of the Gilded Age 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…