. Housewives who previously enjoyed leisure time now spent most of their time operating appliances that completed the work once done by a servant. As a result, electrical appliances meant many women spent more time taking care of their homes, not less.
This
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COURSE IN DOMESTIC ARTS
COURSE IN DOMESTIC ARTS
Except in the hours devoted to shop, farm or horticultural work, the course for young women will be the same as for young men in the four years’ course of agriculture. There will be some fifteen terms of
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British and her mother was Chinese. They met when her father traveled to China for business.
As a child, Edith moved several times as her father sought work. When she was less than one year old, her family immigrated to the United States. They lived in
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Delta, Louisiana. Sarah’s parents and her four older siblings had been enslaved on a cotton plantation until the end of the Civil War. Sarah was the first member of her family to be born into freedom. The family lived and worked together as sharecroppers
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Black university in Wilberforce, Ohio. She then taught Latin at the prestigious M Street Colored High School in Washington, D.C. While there, she married fellow teacher Robert Terrell.
After marriage, Mary left the teaching profession to pursue work
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the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied the violin. By 1900, she was teaching music and speech at the Carlisle Indian School, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, one of the most famous boarding schools in the country.
Zitkala-Sa worked at the
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. Her father was a rancher and businessman, and her mother was a school teacher. She was one of seven children.
Jeannette graduated from the Montana State University in 1902. After graduation, she moved to New York City to study social work at the
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. She went undercover at a factory where she experienced unsafe working conditions, poor wages, and long hours. Her honest reporting about the horrors of workers’ lives attracted negative attention from local factory owners. Elizabeth’s boss did not want
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got her first taste of political radicalism. Soon after, however, she moved to Germany to live with her grandmother and attend school. After only four years in the school, 16-year-old Emma returned to Russia to go to work as a seamstress in a corset
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frequent unplanned pregnancies.
A new child meant another mouth to feed. For poor married women, pregnancy was not a time to rest. In addition to daily housework and childcare, many of them continued to work. After spending most of their adult years
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