Although women played a vital role in providing for their families, economic opportunities remained limited. During the early 1800s, an additional job opportunity arose for women -- factory work. ... Employers commonly paid women one-half to two-thirds of what a man doing the same job received. The wages were pitiful.
The budgetary process became the center of many political
battle in Washington because it is the only issue in the American government by
which the president and as well as the congress works together without asking
any help from the supreme court.
