New Paths to Power: American Women 1890-1920 (Young Oxford History of Women in the United States)

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In the 30 years from 1890 to 1920–a period referred to as the Progressive Era–American women started to demand greater participation in the country’s public and economic life than they had ever up to now had. They sought, and won, both more freedom and more responsibility. Women and girls (many of them immigrants or the daughters of immigrants) swelled the growing ranks of wage earners and of highschool and college students. African-American women, even in the racially divided South, an increasing number of became teachers or owners of small businesses. Other women, working through clubs and voluntary organizations, pressured government and businesses for reform. Following leaders such as suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt, birth regulate pioneer Margaret Sanger, black journalist Ida B. Wells, and social worker Jane Addams, women made significant personal and social gains. In 1920, after a 72 year struggle, they won the right to vote. Karen Manners Smith notes that even supposing the Progressive Era did not bring women full equality, it used to be however a time when an unprecedented number of women started to find New Paths to Power and fulfillment.

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