ch.17 sct.2 C.T.#5

If I were a woman during the progressive era, in order to recruit women to support the many different causes, such as improving education, housing reform, food and drug laws, and the right to vote, I would stress the problems that needed fixing and explain how the movement was trying to remedy those problems. I would then explain how women benefited from each cause.
For example, womens' education was in need of some major repairs. Many colleges did not accept women and those that did probabaly didn't offer many choices to women for education. If I wanted a woman tojoin the cause to improve womens' education, I would remind them of how women were being discriminated against in colleges and given inferior (or no) educations to women. I would point out that with better educations available to women, they had more options. They no longer had to rely only on marriage (p.521) and could be independent, following their own dreams as far as careers go.
Another example is the cause to win womens' right to vote. All male citizens were allowed to vote, but not females. This meant women had no voice in politics. If women supported the cause for suffrage and they got a breakthrough, they would have a voice in politics, (possibly) be able to put an end to things such as alcohol ("issues") and be able to have a say in work conditions, ect. This sis what I would tell a woman back then to get her to join the cause. (p. 521-2)