The Woman Movement of the Progressive Era

Since the Revolutionary War, Americans have been fighting for the freedom and basic rights guaranteed by the Constitution. It is not surprising that women took part in this continuing battle for rights during the Progressive Era, an time in American History distinguished by it spirit of reform and betterment. The most notable attempts to gain rights for women came from the “woman movement” and the feminist movement, both of this time period. Although the approaches by which the “woman movement” and the feminists undertook in seeking out equality were different, they were each successful in their own right.

Out of this Progressive Era mood of reforms and change came the “woman movement”. The movement was mostly made up of middle class women that believed women were by nature, caretakers and therefore better at making social decisions. Social Housekeeping” was best preformed by women since it was they that possessed the “special, even superior, traits as guardian...