Women and the Progressive Era

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Women and the Progressive Era
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SLOs

• Identify how womens achievements during the
  Progressive Era have improved your quality of
  life.
• Identify how womens achievements during the
  Progressive Era have improved our community

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1880s-1920s

• Social 1916 Birth Control
• Economic 1908 Muller v. Oregon
• Political 1919/1920 19th Amendment

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Political Reformers
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Alice Paul
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• Alice understood that securing the right to vote
  was only the first step.
• After the 1920 victory, she authored the Equal
  Rights Amendment and initiated gender equality in
  both the United Nations Charter and in the 1964
  Civil Rights Act.

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Jeanette Rankin
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• in 1916 Rankin decided to run for Congress.
• Rankin campaigned for universal suffrage,
  prohibition, child welfare reform, an end to
  child labor
• Peace Activist

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• Social Reformers

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Margaret Sanger
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• 1916, Sanger opened the nation's first birth
  control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn
• 1921 the American Birth Control League.
• 1923 the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
• 1929 National Committee on Federal Legislation
  for Birth Control
• 1936 the U.S. Court of Appeals

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Ida B. Wells
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• 1884 Segregation Case Chesapeake and Ohio
  Railroad Company
• 1889 Anti-lynching Crusade
• 1909 Founding Member of NAACP

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Gertrude Simmons Bonin
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• 1911 Society of American Indians secretary
  effective spokespersons in its drive to promote
  Indian welfare.
• 1928 Meriam Report
• 1926 founded the National Council of American
  Indians

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Economic Reformers
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Lucy Parsons
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• 1883 International Working People's Association
  (IWPA)
• organized the 1886, May 1st official movement
  for the eight hour day
• 1907-1920 organized against hunger and
  unemployment
• February 12 , 1915 Chicago Hunger Demonstrations
  with the American Federation of Labor, the
  Socialist Party, and Jane Addam's Hull House
  resulted in government decentralization of hunger
  and unemployment policy planning .

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Japanese Women Labor Union Leadership
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• As 20 of the Japanese sugar workforce,
• Japanese women participated in the 1920 sugar
  strike in large numbers.
• The Japanese Federation of Labor initially
  included paid maternity leave ( 2 weeks prior 6
  weeks post-partum) as a strike demand.
• The key issue in the 1920 strike, the demand for
  higher wages, was based on the need to provide
  for workers' families.

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Historical Significance