In 1874 the Women’s Christian Temperance Union(W.T.C.U.) was formed which was a women’s group with a “comprehensive program of economic reform including the right to vote.” (Foner, 63-64). Women from the group had to remind “Francis Willard, the group’s president,” to “abandon the idea that “weakness” and dependence were their nature and join assertively in movements to change society.” (Foner, 64). “During the progressive era, the working women –immigrants and native, working class and professional – became a symbol of female emancipation.” (Foner, 77). As such younger women who desired to have careers were going after then, which in turn change both the economy and family dynamics to much what it looks like
In 1874 the Women’s Christian Temperance Union(W.T.C.U.) was formed which was a women’s group with a “comprehensive program of economic reform including the right to vote.” (Foner, 63-64). Women from the group had to remind “Francis Willard, the group’s president,” to “abandon the idea that “weakness” and dependence were their nature and join assertively in movements to change society.” (Foner, 64). “During the progressive era, the working women –immigrants and native, working class and professional – became a symbol of female emancipation.” (Foner, 77). As such younger women who desired to have careers were going after then, which in turn change both the economy and family dynamics to much what it looks like