Social, Legal and Political Position of Women in the 1890s
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- Middle-class Women
- Usually educated at home by a governess.
- Taught music, singing and drawing.
- Seen as ornaments for men.
- Many attended school in the latter half of the 19th century.
- Struggled to go on to higher education and could not be awarded degrees.
- Could teach (though had to be single), be nurses (had to resign when married), or do clerical work.
- By 1900 could be doctors and architects, but not lawyers.
- Main aim to their education was to make them good wives and mothers.
- Men were paid more for similar jobs.
- In an inferior position within marriage.
- Property passed to husbands.
- Could only divorce with solid proof of cruelty, desertion and bigamy.
- In divorce, women lost rights over children.
- Became husband's property.
- Working-class women
- Most had to go out to work.
- Many women worked at home or in small workshops.
- Towards the end of 19th century there were jobs in many new shops and jobs as typists.
- Has to leave jobs when they married and were paid a great deal less than men.
- Only went to school due to compulsory education.
- In an inferior position within marriage.
- Main aim to their education was to make them good wives and mothers.
- Property passed to husbands.
- Men were paid more for similar jobs.
- Became husband's property.
- In divorce, women lost rights over children.
- Could only divorce with solid proof of cruelty, desertion and bigamy.
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