Women in public life

1. Women lead reform

1.1. Women in higher education

1.1.1. Though Columbia,Brown, and Harvard Colleges refused to admit women, each university established a separate college for women.

1.2. Women and reform

1.2.1. in 1896 African American women founded the National Association of Colored Women, or NACW.

1.3. A three-part strategy for suffrage

1.3.1. New node

2. Women in the work force

2.1. Farm Women

2.1.1. Farm women handled a host of other chores such as raising livestock.

2.2. Women in industry

2.2.1. Wonen had new options for findng jobs.

2.3. Domestic Workers

2.3.1. The womens contributed to the economic survival of their families.