These inventions definitely gave women more time, and made women's lives easier. Women's magazines also gave women a voice and character, for the first time people became interested in what women were thinking and doing as persons instead of just housewives. As the century progressed more and more colleges began to accept women, therefore enabling women to become educated and obtain resources that would make them leaders, writers, poets, and so on. .
These changes also brought women to new realizations. It stirred women up, and gave them the desire to be heard and acknowledged. When the Civil War began. A woman's role became that of nurse, seamstress, farmer, worker, and so on. About four hundred women enlisted themselves to fight in the war as men. Some women went in disguised, and fought for our country without being recognized. When the war was finally over, and veterans returned to their households many women lost the jobs they had taken over, and if their husbands or sons had been killed at war they were left without money, homes, or possessions. With all of this going on Susan B. Anthony organized .
The New York Working Women's Protective Union, this union was made to protect women against unfair practices and employers. .
In 1870 the 15th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. It gave the right to vote to all men regardless of race. Although men of different races, primarily black had been given the right to vote, and this was a step forward, black and white women had still been denied equality. This angered many women some felt discouraged while others felt even more inspired to put their all forward for the cause. .
World War I began on April 16, 1917 and women's lives began to change drastically. Many suffragists continued with their efforts to win the vote, however many women turned their efforts into obtaining peace. Some did not like the idea of the country being at war once again, and sending their loved ones off over seas was a difficult thing.
