Women and Progressive Reform

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Women and Progressive Reform

• Club Women
• The Purity Movement
• Women and Work
• Women and the Vote
• Margaret Sanger and Birth Control
• Feminism

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Womens Clubs
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Frances Willard
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White Slavery
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Florence Kelley
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Sweatshops
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Hull House
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Muller v. Oregon (1908)
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Muller v. Oregon (1908)

• Argued for the NCL by Louis Brandeis

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Muller v. Oregon (1908)

• Argued for the NCL by Louis Brandeis
• Supreme Court upheld Ore. Law limiting women in
  factory work to 10 hrs. per day

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Muller v. Oregon (1908)

• Argued for the NCL by Louis Brandeis
• Supreme Court upheld Ore. Law limiting women in
  factory work to 10 hrs. per day
• Based on the argument that women were the weaker
  sex!

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Muller v. Oregon (1908)

• Argued for the NCL by Louis Brandeis
• Supreme Court upheld Ore. Law limiting women in
  factory work to 10 hrs. per day
• Based on the argument that women were the weaker
  sex!
• Justified paying women less money than men for
  the same work!

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National Womens Trade Union League (NWTUL)
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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Alice Paul and the National Womens Party (1914)
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Margaret Sanger and Birth Control
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman