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2. Lowell mill girls - Wikipedia

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   Lowell mill girls. Tintype of two young women in Lowell, Massachusetts (c. 1870) The Lowell mill girls were young female workers who came to work in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution in the United States. The workers initially recruited by the corporations were daughters of New England farmers, typically ...

3. Crittenton, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   Crittenton, Inc. was the product of a merger between two pioneering women’s rights societies of the late 19th century; the Boston Female Moral Reform Society and the Florence Crittenton Home. [1] Both organizations had similar goals in assisting poor and unwed mothers and ultimately worked together to help these women achieve economic ...

4. Lowell mills - Wikipedia

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   Indeed, hiring women made good business sense; not only did women have experience weaving and spinning, they could be paid less than men, thereby increasing the profits of Lowell's Boston Manufacturing Company, and were "more easily controlled than men". Additionally, his tight rein on his employees "cultivated employee loyalty, kept wages low ...

5. Women's education in the United States - Wikipedia

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   1970. 41.5%. 13.3%. 1980. 49%. 30.3%. The statistics for enrollment of women in higher education in the 1930s varies depending upon the type of census performed in that year. According to the U.S. Office of Education, the total number of enrollment for women in higher education the U.S. in 1930 was 480,802.

6. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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   Massachusetts: Married women are granted separate economy. [11] 1845. New York: Married women are granted patent rights. [4] The state also passes a statute that proclaimed women who had abortions could be given a prison sentence of three months to a year. It was one of the few states at the time to have laws punishing women for getting ...

7. Helix Human Services - Wikipedia

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   Helix Human Services, which started in 1865 [1] as Springfield Home for Friendless Women and Children and was later known as The Children's Study Home, is an organization based in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is the foldest nonprofit in Western Massachusetts. [2] At the time of its inception, Helix addressed women's issues, family welfare ...