Question

What does settlement life tell us about the changing relations of educated middle-class women to their families and communities at the turn of the twentieth century?

Answer 1

Here we start with the defination of middle class ,its the class which stands between the highest & the lower strata of society , it may be said that the above class is of great capalist & the below are the social group , the proletariat , the class of wage- working groups , or the people with medium income groups.

It had been recognised that working class women participated in waged labour .It depended on the martial status , stage in family cycle & the society.Middle class womens role in the economic growth had a hidden role.

The women became increasingly associated with the private rerealms of home & the family. as thought in the centuries ofthe ideology , that women should not earn a living& amarried women to be dependend on her husband & the women more or less confined to domesticity& social & economic dependence on male relative or partner.

In years , the studies reveal that number of modifications to the standards of images of women have changed as they had entered in the feild of education , medicine , politics, & even in the local government created a space themselves.

How ever the middle class women has emphasised the diverse composition of this group & the divergences of wealth, power & status . the clas had reflected inthe culture & the social world.

In the century there was an intense & rapid change in industralization was brought up & there was a resurgence in the the enforcement & belief in classical or traditional roles. tThe modern feminist movement was gaining momentum with its advocacy for suffrage.With more education ,more women were allowed to participate in society . The success in women colleges germinated the idea of more professional education for women in the field of lecturers, doctors, scientists, lawers, & others where their roles were as equal to males.

At one stage voting rights were denied , asthey believed women were not capable of understanding all the ramifications of the situations , & logical reasons were not seen in their nature. Finally the voice to allow women voting & had a voice in goverment decision , began to act in politics, introducing moral legislation which advocated in the labor law , child labor laws.

All these factors changed the middle class women to bring up their families & in communities , there fore setteling their life.

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