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  1. Women's Welfare Activist Records Inequalities Faced by Female Teachers

    Date(s): 1862 Location: WASHINGTON, Vermont Tag(s): Public School, Teachers, Equal Rights, Women, Education, Powerful Women in History, Women's roles, women's rights 

    During a visit to America, women's welfare activist, Emily Faithfull examined the vast inequality that existed between men and women teachers and concluded that the situation was unfortunately no better for English women. The "feminization of teaching" had just begun to evolve around the time of her visit (1862);the majority of teaching positions in America, from the colonial period to the middle of...

  2. Women's Rights Activist Experiences Effects of the Communication Revolution

    Date(s): 1872 Location: COOK, Illinois Tag(s): Juries, Powerful Women in History, Communication Revolution, Female Authors, Women 

    During the first of three visits to America in the fall of 1872,  Emily Faithfull, an Englishwoman and women's rights activist described the problematic state of affairs that existed in the American government. During her stay, she closely followed the news articles published in the The New York Daily, The Boston Herald, and The Chicago Tribune, which all related stories of corrupt government officials...