I was interested in studying what women's lives were like in the 1800s so I researched a bit about that from http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/history/19/overview.htm

- "They had to obey men, because in most cases men held all the resources and women had no independent means of subsistence."
- Girls received less education than boys, were barred from universities, and could obtain only low-paid jobs
-Women's sole purpose was to marry and reproduce
-If a woman was unhappy with her situation there was, almost without exception, nothing she could do about it
- Anything she earned belonged to him.

why did this change??
- Civil War and the fourteenth amendment led to women advocating for their rights as well
- Declaration of the Rights of Women during the French Revolution



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