gohar Blog # 9

Gohar Blog# 9

1)Women’s experiences of immigration in late nineteenth century in less than half century, 27 million immigrants came to the United States of America. They came from Italy, Germany, Asia, and Mexico. They were ethnically and religiously diverse people. The gender were complex, immigrates women came for many reason, such as shared with men, economic forces, and better opportunity. One other reason was politics, for instance Jeans came to escape growing anti-Semitism. Young women came to be independence and choose their men by own. Some women migrated because of poverty, personal and painful reasons. Age and marital status made different experience for immigrant women. The similarity between men and women were the reasons for became the immigrant, but they had so many differences. They got different wages, different living style, and most of immigrant men after a while returned to their country because of their family, but women were on different situation.

2)Immigrate women were active at all the categories of their life. They worked very hard to have the possibility to vote. They were active to earn better wages. All the time they were fighting for what they believed. They were involved at many protests .Even though, all the women were making a movement for a different cause, but after all they all had the same purpose in making a better life and equilibrium their rights with the rights of men. Women joined the industrial protest because they believed that they had to earn the same amount of wage as men workers, because women were also doing the same activities as men were doing.

3)Addams believed that no matter how the society and the people try to cover up the facts and differences made among the rich and poor society, there will still not be equilibrium among people. Women of different background, who had grown up in different parts of the country had different characteristics. Some of the women from poor families were not very educated, and so vise versa about the rich women. Although, in reality the poor did not really like the rich, because they were the ones with lands and all the wealth, but poor always respect the rich.

4)Adams’s position as settlement house volunteer made her analyze many theories about the structure of the poor and rich societies. She mentioned being slightly depressed after working with the charitable, but that was not for long until she realized that education would make the poor and rich understand the concept of living among poor than just blaming them as an individual for being lazy or useless. The bottom line is having education, just like she was a college graduate and had more education than so many other women at the time made her more knowledgeable about the facts and the structure of the society.