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Matilda Joslyn Gage (née Joslyn; March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was an American writer and activist.She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States, but also campaigned for Native American rights, abolitionism, and freethought.
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898.
On January 1, the Massachusetts government enforces a law that allowed women to work a maximum of 54 hours instead of 56. Ten days later, affected workers discover that pay had been reduced along with the cut in hours. [64] 1915. The Supreme Court first considers the Expatriation Act of 1907 in the 1915 case MacKenzie v. Hare.
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During this time, Government propaganda calling on women to enter the workforce during the emergency popularized the "Rosie the Riveter" image of women assuming male roles. [ 247 ] Standlee (2010) argues that during the war the traditional gender division of labor changed somewhat, as the "home" or domestic female sphere expanded to include the ...
The project dominated their lives for much of the next decade, although Anthony in particular also maintained a busy schedule of lecturing and other women's suffrage activities. Originally envisioned as a modest publication that would take only four months to write, [1] it evolved into a work of more than 5700 pages written over a period of 41 ...
Maria Nikolaevna Olovennikova (Russian: Мария Николаевна Оловенникова; 15 May 1852 – 20 September 1898) was a Russian Narodnik revolutionary. . Born into a noble family, she became a revolutionary socialist in the 1870s, participating in the activities of Zemlya i Volya and co-founding Narodnaya Vo
1898 in women's sport (3 C) This page was last edited on 21 April 2020, at 02:58 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...