Question

How did industrialization in the early 1800s affect women?
Women began to earn more money than men.


Women began to go to school to learn a trade.


Women began to get involved in local city politics.


Women began to work outside the home.

Answer 1

women began to work outside the home

Answer 2

Industrialisation affected women by giving them opportunities to work outside the home.  Before industrialisation, women usually had traditional work like helping take care of matters on a farm, making or repairing clothing and raising children.

Post industrialisation, farmers were pushed off their land and had to go to urban areas for employment at the factories or mines.

Shifting to a new place meant that women also had to do their bit to support their family. They found work in textile factories, mines.