industrial revolution, the only place for a woman in Germany was in charitable positions on the bare fringes of public life. Their lot was to tend to the home and family. With the coming of the industrial revolution to Eastern Europe, there were more jobs available outside the home, and women joined the workforce more and more. They were needed and necessary in the workforce, but their effect in bringing about democratic reform was minimal. The Feminist Movement itself was reasonably effected by the new middle class and not so much the lower.Even with the rising rate of women in the workforce, the conditions of work were extremely restrictive. While being indispensable to the growing industries and service jobs that were now appearing, women could never hope to teach at a boys school, and to teach in any case, they had to be single and prepared to resign if they got married. These movements were more conservative as well, and tended to not indulge in politics, with the exception of trying to break into the medical professions and to try and get better education in the girls schools. More women found jobs in the growing roles of secretaries or line workers in newly industrialized factories.The Womans Movement, while having some parallels with the suffrage movement in America, was a lot slower. Making a comparison between the suffrage movements in Germany and America is not exactly a fair evaluation though, since the roles of women in these two cultures differed so completely. The women in Germany did eventually get the right to vote, and petitioned for equal pay for equal work as well as attempt to get a more equal education for young girls. It has been proposed that because of the votes of women in Germany, Hitler eventually came to power. I give this proposition little credence, for the actions of Bismarck and following Chancellors paved the way for the eventual rise of Nazism. The militarization of the bourgeoisie did more to bring ab...
