Women in the Workforce

Group 6 Janelle Maskulka, Hannah Reifer, Laura Welker, Andrea McNett Group Leader Hannah Reifer Scribe Janelle Maskulka discipline Wo mould force in the Workforce from the 1800- current Outline and Student Responsibilities Introduction Our classify willing discuss how women in the past had limited acidifying rights nevertheless over time laws and bills were passed that allowed women to grow in the workplace. However still today women are not treated as pairs to their male counterparts. 1. 1800s Andrea McNett sooner/ Early 1800s little to no rights and strictly housewives Industrial Revolution o Unmarried women worked in factories and moved to city o Cause women to delay join/ less children Womens Rights o to a greater extent Independent o Fought for equal w advances ? Female Labor Reform necktie in unexampled England (1844) o Fought for education o Fought for voting The field American adult female Suffrage Association (NAWSA) o Founded in 1840 o Mainly focussed on wo mens right to vote Branched into two subdivisions ? National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) ? American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) Susan B. Anothony 2. 1900-1950 Hannah Reifer Employment in 1900 o Women only had 5% gainful interlocking outside of the household ? Woman self-imagine began to remove Went from only wanting children and a husband to wanting to be utilise o By 1910 this physical exertion rate had increased to 11% Women in politics (voting rights) Also by 1910, only four states had equal women rights. ? These failures were partly due to people who conceive that politics was no place for women Womens Suffrage Amendment (1920) (NAWSA) o nineteenth amendment o Cant base the write to vote come to of sex The Great Depression (1930s) o Prohibited married women to work ? Legislature passed in 26 states World War II (1939-1945) o Brought major change to women in the workforce o Men went to contend o 6 million much than women entered into the workforce o any(prenominal) women didnt want to work Rosie the Riveter We Can Do It was used as motivation o As soon as the state of war was over men returned to jobs women were laid off By 1947 women began to once once again enter the workforce By 1950 31% of women in the United States were employed and working 3. 1950- 2000 Laura Welker Roots of the Revolution (1950-1970s) o Warning signs of a revolution, change in womens expectations of employment Women began to see themselves as going to college and perchance even graduate school o Working mothers and wives was slowly comme il faut more common Quiet Revolution (1970-2000s) Woman enrollment in colleges and grad schools increased dramatically o Women began to studying fields men were typically professionalized in such as medicine, law and dentistry More women were now expected to go to college and join the workforce by age 35, where in the past women were supposed to be in the home and energise the children 4. 2000s Janelle Maskul ka Almost half of the workforce today is made up of women (46%) Major women in the workforce today o Oprah o Condoleezza strain o Hillary Clinton Major changes since 1900s o Bypassing men in attention positions Staying with employers longer than men However, men still continue to make more money o . 76% higher wages than women Conclusion (Group quislingism/ Input of tying up loose ends) Over time and tale women have worked hard to gain rights in and out of the workforce. If we continue to work in the same direction and gain more and more rights we will see more results such as equal pay compared to men, more women in the management and CEO positions, in turn breaking the water ice ceiling and the barrier between men and women in the workforce, which is the overall goal.