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The main thing in society and family was that men controlled women and women could only take care of the children. Women then could be compared to someone being locked up in an asylum (Doc. D). After the reform the roles changed so much that people were shocked. The changes of women's positions with family, work, and society, after 1815, affected their status in the country. Before the whole reform there was the republican motherhood which said that women influenced the children at home and taught them their opinions of society. Later on, after the early 1800's, the women were labeled as the 'cult of domesticity' which was pretty much the same as the motherhood. These labels were for the married women that stayed at home and did womanly things. If women were educated more, and not degraded, they would teach their children about society. If this would happen the state of society would be way different (Doc. C). When the sewing machine came out women could actually work for pay. When they worked for pay they had to leave home and not do things at home during the day. Some women started working at mills and factories that would allow women to work there. Women had to work hard during the day and had a free evening all to their own (Doc. B). People in society thought that if they worked outside the home they would become manly, so factories had different living quarters and only worked with each other, not men. The 2nd Great Awakening helped reform women in their believes and what their job is in society. After the reform women came out in society and were outspoken about their religious convictions (Doc. A). Women could have more fun with other women out in society and they could have more of a social life. Women took more risks in society by being outside more during the day and dressing differently than what they usually do. Women started wearing bloomers - kind of like pants under a knee-length skirt (Doc. E). That was taking a risk of being looked down upon and they drawn more attention than what they were supposed to get. With the reform in the women's recent past there came the ideas of equal rights that men have. Some women even wrote a petition on having those equal rights and having a voice in society (Doc. F). There was a convention in Seneca Falls that women went to and out of it came a Declaration of Sentiments. It was the same as the Declaration of Independence, but saying 'men and women' instead of just men. The women's roles in their family, work, and society changed while women started having ideas about what they should be doing.