6. The political campaign for women in the USA (1865-1960) - Charity work
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- The political campaign for women in the USA (1865-1960) - Charity work
- Charity Organisation Society became major outlet for many urban women's energies
- Experience of charity work
- Many cities and states to appoint women to administer public charities, giving them experience of local government
- Effective in persuading many states to pass pension legislation in 1900s
- Gave assistance to mothers, widows and wives whose husbands were unable to work due to disability
- Female contributed to settlement house movement in late 1880s
- Established 400 settlement houses in cultural activities to relieve what were often bleak urban districts
- In some areas took on political aspect
- Meeting places for social reformers and rooms for trade union meetings
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