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This 4-page paper focuses on technology and women's rights, comparing the woman of the late 19th century, to the woman of today. The paper makes the argument that if it weren't for home economic technology (and that in the factories) that women's rights and suffrage never would have occured. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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take on any job we please -- even if that job is considered to be a "masculine" one. We also take for granted that we can microwave a meal quickly,
and when dinner is over, we can pop dishes in the dishwasher for cleaning. We also take for granted that washing clothes means simply putting them in a box, adding
soap, putting down the lid an switching the "on" button. But 150 years ago, this wasnt the case. Women during the late
19th century had to do everything by hand, from washing clothes through a hand-ringing washer, to cooking meals in an oven that required wood as fuel and that took a
lot of time to prepare. Baking bread, for example, was an all-day activity, not one that could be accomplished in a handful of hours with use of a bread machine.
And this was in urban areas -- in more rural areas, according to Quinnell, pioneer women not only had to take care
of the household chores, they also had to learn their husbands farming jobs, just in case of an emergency (Quinnell, 2003). Such tasks, needless to say, meant that women had
little time for themselves, or to think about doing anything rather than staying ahead of what needed to be done. Because of
this, women basically had no time for "womens rights," taking on jobs outside the home or suffrage -- they were too busy cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, caring for the little
ones and so forth. The tendency, at the time, was for the male-female role to continue from what was common during the cave days; namely that men were the hunter/gatherers,
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