Women's Rights During The Victorian Era

The Victorian Era

The Victorian Era, women were set to provide their husbands with a neat home, food on the table, and to raise their children. The rights for women were overly limited when it came down to losing control of their wages, physical property, and cash that they gain once they were married. The rights were given over to the spouse after getting married. It was the law that placed the husband in control of the property, earnings, including the money. In extension, Victorian wives became property to their husbands, giving them rights to what their bodies produced; children, sex and domestic labor. Women bodies were like contracts to their husbands.

The private life for a working class family was very uncomfortable. During the Victorian era, a working class wife was responsible for keeping her family as clean, warm and dry. Overpopulation was a big problem when there are 60+ crammed into a 10 bedroom house, or 12 people living in one room. The houses were mostly rotten and decomposed. The order was very powerful and

Many social and legal enforcements continued their campaign by fighting for women rights. Legal protection from domestic violence wasn’t yet acknowledged for the women until 1853. This law only placed legal requirements on the amount of force that was permitted to the women. Some had accepted the facts that there was no way out they’d become helpless.

Another challenge was very important when it came to persuading women that was bashed by their husbands. The women were encouraged to use whatever source that was available to help them. A group established by animal-rights and pro-temperance activists was started to shelter the women’s social cause. Inspectors were later hired to protect the women and children who were in a certain class. If women were hurt to viciously, she was restrained to the lower class. If women who were in a higher class, they stood a chance of having public