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La Malinche (Cineikwa)
Marina or Malintzin, more popularly known as La Malinche, was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast. She is famously known as Cortez's translator that helped them to conquer the Aztecs. She is criticized because she went against her kind in aiding in their destruction. She is an important part of history because she can be seen as one of the first women documented that worked in an untraditional role.
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*Southern Colonies: Wives, Servants and Slaves- By Sarah Delva
During this period, the first slaves came to Jamestown. The first slaves were treated like Indentured servants: someone who was under contraction by the Europeans to work in order to gain their pass to Jamestown. Had to get their time paid off. Women had to get their time paid off in order to get married. Women used this advantage to marry planters to get gain their freedom. Also, at the time they preferred Indentured servants because slaves were more expensive upfront and a lot of them died -
Pocahontas and her work (Cineikwa)
Pocahontas was a translator in Jamestown who taught her husband how to plant and grow tobacco. Today she is remembered for her aid in establishing Jamestown and keeping it prosperous. She is one of the first individuals seen to have a great impact on women in history because of her ability to help the pilgrims survive as long as they did. -
Alexia: Elizabeth 'Mumbet' Freeman- the first to sue and win herself out of slavery
Elizabeth 'Mumbet' Freeman was a slave of John Ashley and his wife Hannah in Sheffield, Massachusetts. As a woman of color, she had very little opportunity to work as anything except a slave. Mumbet sued for her freedom in 1781 after John's wife Hannah swung a hot kitchen shovel hitting Mumbet's arm. She was granted her freedom; she lived the rest of her life as a paid servant and raised a family on her wages.
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Alexia: Martha Ballard: responsible for providing us with information through her diary regarding the role of women within their communities in early America
Martha Ballard was a midwife and physician in Hallowell, Maine. She was also a herbalist, pharmacist, mortician, wife, mother, and grandmother. She delivered 816 babies and only lost 5 women ever during birth. She kept a diary from 1785 until her death in 1812; she detailed her experiences, the weather, her daily activities, the names of visitors in her home, as well as many other things.
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Alexia: “On the Equality of the Sexes” (1790): an essay by Judith Sargent Murray
Murray was the daughter of a merchant. She contended that men and women should have access to an equal education. She hoped that “sensible and informed” women would improve their minds rather than rush into marriage (as she had at eighteen). Murray, who experienced financial hardship as a widow and even after she remarried, saw in education the potential for women to not only raise virtuous sons, but also find a means to economically provide for themselves. -
*Eliza Lucas Pinckney- By Sarah Delva
She was wealthy and denied many men's hands in marriage but approved of Pickney. After her husband's death, she received the power of estate and since she was the only child of her parents, she received their estate as well. She also introduced the cultivation of indigo to the Britsh colonies. She was the first most important agriculturalist of the United States and grew the production of the indigo plant to improve the cash crop, so it would help South Carolina out of debt. -
Factory Work- Sarah Delva
The population increased which cause women to produce more, kids helped in income by working at factories, immigration was growing to own land and to receive a different government system. Early Market Economy in the household had built on the household economy, and technologies were more efficient in factories. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire In New York City Marc-andrew
Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory fire killed 145 workers. It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history. The deaths were largely preventable–most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building. The tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers. -
Madam C.J. Walker- Cineikwa
Madam C. J. Walker was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records. She is mostly known for her creation of her haircare line and her company that caters towards African American hair and creating job opportunities for African American women. -
Equal Pay act of 1963 (Marc-Andrew)
This legislation signed in to law by President John F. Kennedy on June 10, 1963, addressed wage differences based on gender. The Act made it illegal to pay men and women working in the same place different salaries for similar work. -
Meritor Savings Bank Supreme Court Ruling (Marc-Andrew)
After being fired from her job at a Meritor Savings Bank, Mechelle Vinson sued Sidney Taylor, the Vice President of the bank, Saying that she had constantly been subjected to sexual harassment by Taylor over her four years at the bank. In this Supreme Court Ruling, it decided that sexual harassment is outlawed under Title VII of the civil rights amendment.
