education right ago before
keep attend work career role raise law
job One hundred and fifty years 1
,the position of women in U.S. society was very different from
their position today. At that time women were completely subordinate to men.
Society did not encourage women to have a 2 outside the home. Although they received an 3
at elementary school and high school, they were not allowed to
4 college or university. Even if a
married women did 5 outside the home,
she could not 6 the money that she
earned. The 7 required her to give the
money to her husband! Society expected women to do the housekeeping, to
8 the children, and to obey their
husbands. That was their 9 in society.
They did not have the 10 to vote. In
many ways, they were almost like slaves.