WOMEN IN 1898

WOMEN'S ROLES

"It has long been the fashion to regard the position of all women in American as immeasurably superior to that of women in any other quarter of the globe. From a legal point of view this is perhaps true, and even in social matters it might well be admitted with regard to the unmarried girl: but on behalf of married women I venture to make an Englishwoman's emphatic protest to the contrary."
-Maryland (from "Married Women in American Society")

HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO THE YELLOW WALLPAPER?

QUIZ

• Name one or more women who took steps toward a future for women in the 1900's
• True or false, married women could have friendships with the opposite sex.
• What is the main comparison between the way the woman in The Yellow Wallpaper was treated and the way women were treated in 1898?

ANSWERS

• Amelia Earhart, Elizabeth Blackwell, and/or Susan B. Anthony
• False
• They were patronized and not taken seriously by men.