The following Sydney Morning Herald article portrays the impact of industrial revolution on women from a 2017 perspective. As it has been greatly agreed by many historians Industrial revolution was an important period for change especially to the roles played by women in the society. The economic necessity among many women, married and single is observed to have contributed greatly for women to look for waged work in different industries. Many women were employed in coal mines, textile factories, piece workshops and domestic services. For some women, industrial revolution brought mobility, independent wages as well as better living standards while the others experienced a life associated with hardships while working in the industries.
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Unlike the current time where working women are seen as equal to men, women’s money during the industrial revolution was only considered as an extra payment while men were paid more because they provided for the whole family. Women as well worked for long hours from mornings up to late night. The factories were also crowded and also very loud, and even though women are observed to have done a lot of the work in industries, the supervisors were all men. Additionally, Women also experienced high demand for children from the society due to the need of labor in the society. The high demand led to increased birth rates which affected the physical strength of many women making it hard for them to work in the factories. Although the industrial revolution was able to provide independent wages to working women, this also affected their families in that many working women left their children and their siblings alone at home which resulted in cases of neglect as well as an increase in infant death rates. Those women who also filled jobs which were predominantly regarded as men’s job were seen to be masculine and hence not skilful to be future homemakers or …show more content…
One of the short-term impacts on women for industrial revolution was that there was increased movement of women in the cities. This was mainly among those women who were unmarried and who moved to different towns to look for jobs due to the reduction of job opportunities in the farms. This was also due to the demand for human labor in different industries which had increased. Women also started to carry out jobs which predominantly perceived to belong to the men in different factories. Women were also able to improve the quality of their life due to the skills they got in their workplaces as well as experience a higher living standard due to then wages they earned. On the hand, one of the long-term effects of the industrial revolution on women was that there was continued improvement of the women rights around the globe. From poor working conditions, low wages and many other discriminatory against women in the industrial revolution the campaign for human rights have steadily grown, and the effects can be clearly seen today regarding equal rights for women. There has also been an improvement in the standard of living among women from the industrial period to
The Industrial Revolution was a terrible time for women and children. For example, in document ten, the image shows an overweight man in a carriage, being pulled by young adolescents. This shows how factory owners treated the workers. Another example is located in document six. Which states how upper class citizens would treat the lower class when times would get hard. Most factory workers were women and children, which was unfair.
In the early 19th century, America was experiencing an increase in economic, political, and social changes. One of the mass changes happened during the Market Revolution. What this revolution did for Americans that lived in a more rural environment was basically make things and traded them themselves. They would raise crops and animals to be traded or sold for food, clothing, etc. Factories in the North flourished and the US became more industrialized as people trade money for necessities or wants. The Market Revolution gave women the role of importance in their family life. Women became the new leading member of their family because they were the ones who kept the family together and raised the children and prepare them for adulthood in America. Although the Industrial Revolution brought positive changes to America it also shifted the lifestyles of people and their family.
A huge part of the economical grow of the United States was the wealth being produced by the factories in New England. Women up until the factories started booming were seen as the child-bearer and were not allowed to have any kind of career. They were valued for factories because of their ability to do intricate work requiring dexterity and nimble fingers. "The Industrial Revolution has on the whole proved beneficial to women. It has resulted in greater leisure for women in the home and has relieved them from the drudgery and monotony that characterized much of the hand labour previously performed in connection with industrial work under the domestic system. For the woman workers outside the home it has resulted in better conditions, a greater variety of openings and an improved status" (Ivy Pinchbeck, Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850, pg.4) The women could now make their own money and they didn’t have to live completely off their husbands. This allowed women to start thinking more freely and become a little bit more independent.
The Industrial Revolution provided employment opportunities for women, but issues of gender was brought up in the process. According to my textbook, Americans were opening factories and mills in the country side which provided employment for single farm women. An example would be the Francis
Industrialization had a major impact on the lives of every American, including women. Before the era of industrialization, around the 1790's, a typical home scene depicted women carding and spinning while the man in the family weaves (Doc F). One statistic shows that men dominated women in the factory work, while women took over teaching and domestic services (Doc G). This information all relates to the changes in women because they were being discriminated against and given children's work while the men worked in factories all day. Women wanted to be given an equal chance, just as the men had been given.
Women's roles in society greatly changed after the growth of industry. Women who once were mere housewives and caring mothers now became an active part of the working class. They no longer stayed at home during the day taking care of their husband and children seeing to it that they acted properly and had high moral values instead. Wealthy women were privileged few who were able to stay at home and devote themselves totally to their families.
During this time of industrialization and market revolution men started working more. They focused more on their careers and women took on major roles in the home revolving around the children.
Women proved to be a large force for change during the 1840-1890 period and successfully bolstered their presence and reputation in the political, economical, and social spheres of American Society. During the Industrial Revolution, capitalistic
With many craftsmen out of jobs and more hungry laborers coming from Europe, the society was changing and growing and innovations had to keep up with that. “Pressure for change came from several directions. Immigrants from Europe, especially the Middle Atlantic region, increased the supply of urban labor” (332). Men came from Europe in the hopes that they could create big industries, especially because they knew that there was enough space and people to make it happen successfully. One of the biggest industries to arise during the industrial revolution was the addition of textile mills. These textile mills could quadruple the amount of work one woman could do at home. These factories provided many people with employment but many of the employees complained that they were working long hours without enough money earned to compensate for it. “But increasing competition in the textile industry cut profits, and by the 1830s, operatives found wages cut, boardinghouse rents raised, or workloads increased. Twice, in 1834 and again in 1836, women took strike action to resist these changes” (351). Most women that could not find jobs before the industrial revolution gained them after but they felt the injustice that was being put on them. Consequently, it was very popular for the employees to build labor unions to fight against what republicanism was turning out to
Women on the other hand, are traditionally seen as the homemakers, their chief responsibility was to nurture and care for the children and home and, they were not included in the workforce (Unger). This of course has changed over time; feminist movements empowered an increasing amount of women to seek the right to enter into paid work and to attain the same social status and rights as their male
During the Great War and the huge amount of men that were deployed created the need to employ women in hospitals, factories, and offices. When the war ended the women would return home or do more traditional jobs such as teaching or shop work. “Also in the 1920s the number of women working raised by fifty percent.” They usually didn’t work if they were married because they were still sticking to the role of being stay at home moms while the husband worked and took care of the family financially. But among the single women there was a huge increase in employment. “Women were still not getting payed near as equally as men and were expected to quit their jobs if they married or pregnant.” Although women were still not getting payed as equally it was still a huge change for the women's
As noted in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, the Industrial Revolution provided women with opportunities to work outside the home, but it also "presented an increasing challenge to traditional ideas of woman's sphere" ("Role of Women" 902). The idea of "public and private life as two 'separate spheres'... inextricably connected either with women or with men" (Gorham 4) had emerged as...
However, women have made optimistical progress towards equality and their role in the society has been changed dramatically since the last century. Many women stepped out of their home and start to work at factories and offices. The number of working women with children has more than doubled in the past 50 years. While working conditions for women may have improved, there is a lack of appreciation for the notion that work for most women doesn't end at the door of a factory or office. Despite an increase of women's participation in the labour force, women's share of housework has hardly changed in 50 years.