DBQ+4,+J.L.

DBQ 4, J.L.

Prior to 1815 women were expected to conform to the social norms set for them by men. However by the 1810's women were beginning to shake things up not only in their home but throughout the country. A market revolution and the Second Great Awakening led to the evolution of women's roles in the family, the workplace and also society as a whole. Around this time most women were expected to be stay at home parents to their children and simply tend to the house and her husbands needs all day. This had long been the tradition throughout America and very few women held jobs and if they did happen to have a job that job likely was run from the house. However, with a new market revolution storming through America women slowly began to leave their posts as keepers of the house and began to trickle into factories and mills, performing jobs such as running sewing machines or working in a textile mill. This affected a woman's family greatly being as these families were used to having a motherly figure around all day to tend to the household jobs and rear the children and many families would've likely struggled to adapt to this change. It also affected the structure and heirarchy of the home. With the woman now going off to work everyday just as a man would she acheived a somewhat elevated status within the house. Although she was still not on the same level as the man of the house, her husband, it was beyond a shadow of a doubt a step up for working women within the home. Although there were notable changes in the family of women around this time perhaps the most noteworthy changes came in the workplace. Nearly no women held jobs in the early 19th century but all that was soon to change with the arrival of mills like the textile mills and sewing machines. With the coming of these, particularly the sewing machines in clothing mills, women began to leave the home and began work at the factories.