Question

"Which Progressive Era feminist sought to enable women to compete on equal terms with men by freeing them from individual responsibility for domestic chores?"

Answer 1

Answer: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Explanation: Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American feminist, lecturer, writer and publisher who was also a leading theorist of the women’s movement in the United States.

In 1898 Perkins published Women and Economics, seen by many as a manifesto which attracted great attention. In a radical call for economic independence for women, she disputed, with great intelligence the conventional notions of womanhood and motherhood. She was all for redefining domestic and child-care chores as social responsibilities to be centralized in the hands of those trained for them and not necessarily by the women of the household in order to be able to compete with men on equal footing.