The Age of Change: Reform movements of the 1830's

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The cult of domesticity

House work and child care were the only proper activities for married women in the mid-1800s was known as cult of domesticity. 1/5 women worked for wages for a few years before they were married. 1/10 single white women worked outside the home earring about half the pay men did. Women could not voted/ sit on juries.

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The Age of Change: Reform movements of the 1830's

By Lwais

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