While society frowned on working women, factory work provided women a means to support themselves if they went against societal expectations and chose not to marry. If a woman did marry and her husband died, factories allowed her a means to provide for her family. Factory work also empowered women.Industrialization in the early 1800s began drawing white Northeastern women out of the home and into the factory and schoolhouse. While many women worked for wages, others remained at home and professionalized the job of homemaker as part of the nineteenth-century cult of domesticity.
Industrialization in the early 1800s began drawing white Northeastern women out of the home and into the factory and schoolhouse. ...
While many women worked for wages, others remained at home and professionalized the job of homemaker as part of the nineteenth-century cult of domesticity.
