In the 1800s, what new opportunities did women in various social classes have ou

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In the eastern US (for example, Massachusetts) women worked in textile mills and earned their own money; they also became teachers. Some women had an opportunity to go to college; they were very rare until the end of the 1800s, but for the first time there were female doctors and lawyers. Wealthier women were active in social welfare organizations, such as abolitionists, suffragists, and anti-alcohol groups. In the late 1800s, there were women who, for the first time, went to work in offices as typists.

On the frontier, many women became store owners or saloon-keepers. They also owned and operated their own farms or ranches.

Teachers, , Home companion, Nurse Maid, Maid es, sweatshops that made cloths and if they were willing to change their names author es. This was only for the poor or middle classes. Wealth woman were born to marry and have children's There was not to much new at this time. It wasn't until WW1 that woman could work outside the home at jobs men would have had. Even then when the war was over they were expected to go back to being what they were before the war. Of course by then most woman found they liked the freedom work gave them. If you grow up in a small village you did not have much choice unless you were willing to leave home which was not an easy thing to do.