Why Did Women Join the Work Force in Growing Numbers

question 24

Multiple Choice

Why did women join the work force in growing numbers in the late nineteenth century?

• A) The feminist movement encouraged farm girls and young immigrant women to work in order to become independent of their families.
• B) Changes in agriculture brought young farm women into the industrial labor force, and immigrant daughters worked to supplement meager family incomes.
• C) Industrialists thought women would have a civilizing influence on the brutal factory conditions.
• D) Trade unions won a series of court cases opening employment opportunities for women.
• E) The Civil War had created a shortage of male workers.

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