The struggle for the emancipation of womenDescribe and compare the progress made to guarantee women's rights (economically, educationally, legally, politically, etc.) between 1870 and 1900)Before 1870, women's education depended on their class. If you were born into an upper or middle class family, a governess would have tutored you, while working class women might have gone to Sunday school to learn the basics of reading and writing. writing. Women did not need education before 1870 because they would not need to work unless they were working class, and also because a woman's opinion never mattered, they had to sit still and look pretty. There were many changes after 1870, as elementary, public and university universities were founded. All children, boys and girls, had to attend primary school until the age of 9. Universities and colleges such as Cheltenham Ladies College also marked a breakthrough in women's education. These new laws guaranteed the education of middle and working class women. Women started to think for themselves after that but the sexism was still there, it was an improvement but it wasn't a huge improvement. Elementary schools may have provided opportunities for the lower grades, but they were grossly overcrowded and they had to leave them at age 9, which didn't help them much because at that age they were still too young to work. Due to the fact that before that time there was no guaranteed education for the working class as after 1870 this was made possible. Before 1870, women's jobs were very menial and repetitive and were also often at a much lower rate than a man doing the same job. Upper and middle class women were very idle before 1870 and spent most of their time playing the piano or just looking pretty. Working class women had low paid jobs such as; Domestic service, field work and factory work, tasks of upper and middle class women of the time