HIS 72B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Ellen Gates Starr, Jane Addams
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1890s-1920s centered around americans coming to terms with large scale dislocation in the us. Overcrowding and corruption, growth of large corporations. Women were at the core of the movement. Settlement house: key site for women"s organizing. Through these organizations, women created government and created the modern welfare state. Modern welfare state: social safety net, citizens of the state are entitled to a very basic standard of living. Barred from traditional male-dominated professions after graduation (accounting, A lot of pressure to have children. Created their own new field of social work. Women went into teaching and nursing but not many other options were available. Created their own careers, and decided to nurture the world instead of nurturing babies. The settlement house and the women"s club allowed them to enable them to share their nurturing maternal skills with the greater world. Settlement house contributed to modern welfare state.
