The Nineteenth Century, as known as the Victorian Age, “was an age where the impact of the industrial revolution caused a sharp differentiation between the gender roles, especially of the upper and middle classes” (Radek, 2001, para. 1). Males and females were thought to have separate societal duties based on gender differences. Male’s duty was to the public sphere and women’s duties were confined to the privacy of the home. During the nineteenth century, the advanced female status started to emerge through with the rise in female education and women’s rights.
Kathryn Hughes’s article, Gender roles in the 19th century, introduces us to the fact that, in the past, gender roles were not so heavily revered upon. She concludes that “during the Victorian period [is when] men and women’s roles became more sharply defined than at any [other] time in history. In earlier centuries it had been usual for women to work alongside husbands and brothers in the family business…As the 19th century progressed men increasingly commuted to their place of work – the factory, shop or office. Wives, daughters and sisters were left at home all day to oversee the domestic duties that were increasingly carried out by servants” (Hughes, n.d, para. 1). Men and women began living in essentially two different worlds.
The two sex’s differential lives are known as
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Women began banning together for community status and basic American rights; specifically the right to vote. In 1848, the first woman’s right to vote convention was held in Seneca Falls, N. Y. in 1848. The Four years later, in 1852, Susan B. Anthony joined the fight, arguing that "the [political] right women needed above every other...was the right of suffrage" (Linder, 2001-2011, para 1). In the early 1900s, suffragists began signifying their fight for the right to vote with rallies and protests. Susan B Anthony was a one of the main activists towards women’s