DBQ+1997+Women

Women's dbq 1890 to 1925 Outside information suggested by the documents: A Household appliances, Chain stor, Catt - president of National American Woman Suffrage Association National Women's Party B Upheld oregon state restrictions on working hours of women, justified by state interest in protecting women's health.... The (Infallible) Supreme Court of the (Always Correct) United States of America propines the "fact that woman has always been dependent on Man" C 19th amendment Paul, Catt, Hull House, Keating Owen law, Shephard Towner D women are becoming wiser and people are respecting them more, they should be able to vote E Triangle fire (1911), led to legislation for factory safety standards Women's strike, a labor saving device( technology, advertising revolutinon) F NAWSA NWP, lounge lizards are able to vote, yet moral women aren't allowed to vote, pro womens suffrage G women take up new occupations while men are away at war, first movement towards womens employment in construction industry H Women's Sphere- Husband supports the wife, wife still wants to assert her supposed "equality" to the historically dominant Man despite "abject economic dependence" I Sanger arrested for distibuting birth control information, Planned Parenthood, coined term, "birth control", women are imprisoned by their babies J Because women allowed suffrage, the Supreme Court doesn't want to continue giving them special rights

Outside info: Women getting jobs leads to America becoming obese- have less time to cook meals, feed children the processed garbage that is so benignly named "fast food," make 'em chubby. Basically, women's equality led to the American obesity epidemic. It's true!