Women in Reform Movements

Women in the United States during the 19th century organized and participated in a great variety of reform movements to improve education, to initiate prison reform, to ban alcoholic drinks, and, during the pre-Civil War period, to free the slaves.

 

In one instance, women delegates to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840 were denied their places.Some women saw parallels between the position of women and that of the slaves In their view, both were expected to be passive, cooperative, and obedient to their master-husbands. Many women supported the temperance movement in the belief that drunken husbands pulled their families into poverty.Women were also active in movements for agrarian and labor reforms and for birth control.

After that the movements for prison reform and for providing mental-hospital care for the needy were leader by Dorothea Dix.

 

 

I think that is great to know how women can fight for their rights and equal opportunities, and they not only care about them.