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women and children within factories. As an inspector she focused largely on the morality of the women, being very conservative in her approaches. One of her largest points of advocacy was to separate the spaces where the men and women worked because âany mixing of the sexes would lead to immoralityâ and she wanted to "guard them from immodest contact with men". She spoke with much emotion about this subject, begging the factory owners to imagine themselves as the father of the women in the factory. However, there was much criticizing from the lower class workers in the communities. People claimed that she was conservative to an extreme- too stuck in her ways. While she was praised for trying to protect white factory women, people raged that she showed no concern for the safety of the âhalf-savageâ, or immigrant, female mill hands, as she referred to them. She retained this position until 1897.
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Executive Committee. Ames presided over a meeting held by the Boston Equal Suffrage Association on March 23, 1907, to appreciate professional women as leaders of the Womenâs suffrage movement. This meeting included representatives from every Massachusetts
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Municipal suffrage for female taxpayers at the State House of the Massachusetts Legislature between 1900 and 1910. Ames co-founded the
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and one of the most influential cultural and political clubs for feminists and reformers in the late 19th century. Ames would serve as the president of the New
Century Club during 1887 and 1888.
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in 1869, which influenced them to found the first suffrage society of
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she founded the Germantown Relief Society, an organization that responded to the financial crisis through charity work. Though the Ames Family moved to
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Potter, John. ââSuppose It Were Your Daughterâ: Gender, Class and Work as Perceived by Women Factory Inspectors in Progressive Era Massachusetts.â
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rates. In 1883 Ames headed the first board of directors of the organization. In 1891, Ames presented a speech to the
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