Women During The Industrial Revolution

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The years 1750 to 1900 was a very revolutional time all over the world. These years still affect us to this day. The Industrial Revolution was an increase of production as result of many new technologies that made the production of goods easier. During the industrial revolution, something that stayed the same is the brutal working conditions that women and children went through. The Industrial revolution changed children's opportunity to gain an education. The Industrial Revolution also changed the role of women in society. During the years 1750-1900, one thing that stayed the same is the work conditions in workplaces. For example, most women and children worked in unsanitary places with smoke everywhere and worked a countless amount of hours. Many factory workers came out of work with permanently spots on the face that were black and came from the dangerous smoke. But since everyone wanted to be working to help their families, people didn’t dare to make an attempt to end these terrible working …show more content…

In the beginning of the French Revolution, women played a small part of the political movement. But as time went by, Women joined political debates and formed groups to help improve the rights of women. But towards the end of the revolution, women’s rights got worse because Olympe de Gouges, one of the leaders of the fight for women's rights, was killed for making a declaration saying that women should have equal rights as men. These events caused women’s rights to go backward in France.These two changes and one continuity affected the Industrial revolution in big ways. The two changes are child education, and the status of women.The single continuity is the condition of work for the workers. All of these things had a large contribution of the industrial revolution which was when the production of goods were produced faster and

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