Topic > The Role of Women During the Industrial Revolution

During the nineteenth century, the role of women began to change. Slowly women's roles changed from rigorous domestic work to having a say in their own reform groups. After the American Revolution, women began to have a say in what happened in their daily lives or in the lives of their children and husbands. A woman having a say was something new that men had to deal with, but they were willing to listen. Women did not gain the right to vote nationwide until the 1920s, but the beginning of their suffrage and political movement began in the nineteenth century with the changing times of the Industrial Revolution and life after the American Revolution. During the nineteenth century, the formation of women's social classes became more evident. Additionally, women's roles in the home were changing. Women were still seen as weak and passive, but they were beginning to be considered morally superior to men. (Goldfield, 324) Since there was no longer any use of farms in the Northern states, women chose to have fewer children as they would become an economic burden on them....