Women's Reform

During the Industrial Revolution, women had a mixed blessing. The good part about it was that they received higher pay for working at a factory than work at home. The bad part about it was that women factory workers made about one-third as much money as men. Women began leading reform movements as early as 1848 to address that issue as well as others. They began to wonder why their rights should be denied on the basis of gender after slavery was abolished in 1833. In the mid-1800s, some women formed unions, served as safety inspectors in factories, or ran settlement houses. Women around the world joined together and formed the International Council for Women in 1888 in which delegates and observers from 27 countries attended the meeting in 1889.


I believe that it's a good thing that women stood up for what they believed during the Industrial Revolution. If they wouldn't have done so, our world today may have been different.

Women Working In A Factory During The Industrial Revolution