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Discriminative problems
In the 19th century, women suffered discrimination of all political, economic, educational and legal types. -
Women and education
Sylvain Marechal, a well-known French revolutionary, formulated a bill at the beginning of the nineteenth century to prohibit women from learning to read. -
For man, wood and metals. For the woman, the family and the tissues.
The spatial organization of work, hierarchies of wages, promotion and status, as well as the concentration of women in certain types of employment and in certain sectors of the labor market, ended up building a sexually divided workforce -
Women and work
Giving birth and raising children, activities carried out by women, were raw materials. The transformation of children into adults was the work of the father's salary, the father who gave his children economic and social value. -
Women and sex
Social immorality, curiosity about the other and pleasure. During this time, the woman could only marry a man, since only traditional families predominated. -
Women and art
In the middle of the 19th century, in order to publish their compositions, women were obliged to do so under the pseudonym of a man. However artists like Amalia Lindegren, Hortense Haudebourt and Marguerite Gérard did their arts according to their interests. -
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Los cinturones anchos
Entre los años 1835 y 1850 se comenzó a implementar los cinturones anchos. Estos fueron el complemento más importante de la década, para comprimir y resaltar la cintura femenina. -
Women and politics
In June 1836, Napoleon Bonaparte's regime in Spain generated a hegemonic code in which women were denied the civil rights conquered in the revolution. She was considered subordinate to the father, husband and children. -
The wide belts
Undoubtedly, the wide belts revolutionized the feminine fashion of the 19th century. Absolutely all women of the time used it and, thanks to that, today it is being used by women today. -
La moda a finales del siglo xix
In the second half of the 19th century, the sewing machine appears, which simplifies the life of the woman by helping her to create others faster and in a simpler way. -
The woman begins to work
Women tend, by virtue of learning the role, and not by biological determinism, to prioritize the family over the rest of its sources of fulfillment or personal or professional satisfaction. In United Kingdom, on July of 1883, the first cases of women who worked and, in turn, took care of their children. -
The right to vote in the United Kingdom
Thanks to the struggle for feminine emancipation (Feminism), the vote and some civil rights were achieved at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The first country to give rise to the female vote was the United Kingdom in the year 1908.
