A Woman's Role in the Late 1800's

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The author points out the concept of republican motherhood; women stayed at home to raise children because only women could turn children into responsible adults and productive American citizens. This paper discusses Francis Cabot Lowell system; female textile workers worked in factories and lived in morally virtuous boarding houses. The paper concludes that working at the mills was hard work but the women were proud of their contribution to society and thus changed society.

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"A woman's role in society was drastically influenced by many ideologies f the times. One of the ideals was the concept of republican motherhood. This concept stated that women should stay at home to raise children because only women could turn children into responsible adults and productive American citizens. This unfortunate ideology severely limited the roles a woman might otherwise have taken in society. With many men having gone west in search of new land, many women found themselves poor and unmarried."

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