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Question

Can someone give me some information on the education and employment for women in the early 1900's. Its a school project i really need some help.

Answer 1

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761578143_2/Employment_of_Women.html

i just went on google and typed in "education and employment for women in 1900s"

Answer 2

I would recommend you read "Women and the alphabet, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

Though times were slowly changing, women, especially married women, were viewed as property of the husband. (Below is taken from Women and the Alphabet.)

No doubt, the progress of events is slow, like the working of the laws of gravitation generally. Certainly there has been but little change in the legal position of women since China was in its prime, until within the last half century. Lawyers admit that the fundamental theory of English and Oriental law in the same on this point: Man and wife are one, and that one is the husband. It is the oldest of legal traditions. When Blackstone declares that "the very being and existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage," and American Kent echoes that "her legal existence and authority are in manner lost;" when Petersdorff asserts that "the husband has the right of imposing such corporeal restraints as he may deem necessary," and Bacon that "the husband hath, by law, power and dominion over his wife, and may keep her by force within the bounds of duty, and may beat her, but not in a violent or cruel manner;" When Mr. Justice Coleridge rules that the husband, in certain cases," has right to confine his wife in his own dwelling house, and restrain her from liberty for an indefinite time," and Baron Alderson sums it all up tersely, "The wife is only the servant of her husband,"--these high authorities simply reaffirm the dogma of the Gentoo code, four thousand years old and more: "A man, both day and night, must keep his wife so much in subjection that she by no means be mistress of her own actions. If the wife have her own free will, notwithstanding she be of a superior caste, she will behave amiss."

Answer 3

From what I understand, Many women had their husbands go to war, and had to work their jobs.They were trained and worked only during the time of the war ( WWI ) Otherwise most women weren't allowed to worked jobs that men had.

You can search google on men going to war/ women going to work during WW1