Una descripción breve del rol de las mujeres en la época de Victorian Era, quién fue una gobernante de Europa.

1. Victorian Era and
Role of Women
Karen Huilca
Odalis Matute
Carlos Gonzalez

2. Description
 Victorian was the first English monarch to see her name
given to the period of her reign whilst still living.
 The 19 century was associated with protestant work
ethics, family values and religious observation.
 It was characterised by rapid change and developments
in nearly every sphere.
 The industrialisation and gender from women’s work
make the influence by the prevalence.
 The scientific progress led significant changes in
medicine, increasing the specialisation and
developments in surgery and hospital buildings

3. Victorian era and Role of
Woman
 Low down the social scale, and the prevalence of
lodgers
 They could not vote, sue, or own property, they were
seen as pure and clean
 The role of women was to have children and tend to the
house
 Prostitution on Victorian Era was considered indignity
for that women

4. Characteristics
 In the Victorian Era had:
 Similar rights like the children rights in the time
 They had take care about their husband, and they were considered properties
from their husband
 They were also obligated to take care of her parents in case of illness sacrificing
their self-interest on her side
 They were supposed to obey their husband, and they were considered by the
stereotypes of society like angels

5.  High Class
 They have the advantages from wear expensive cosmetics, clothes.
 The attitude education for women just were only in the classical and commercial .
 The high class women did very little or almost no home chores
 Medium Class
 Women of the middle class depended heavily on marrying “up” into the upper
classes, therefore gaining social prestige as well as a great deal more worldly goods.
 Their lands were not so extensive nor their way of life so grand as that of the
aristocracy and landed gentry
 Lower Class
 The women of lower class worked in the factories, garment, industries, laundries or
various other jobs to support themselves.
 They were just domestic servants supposed to work seven days a week and twelve
hours a day.
 They were the upper class in found positions like shops, as bookkeepers or teachers

6. Dis-advantages
 Woman who wanted to study such subjects as law, physics, engineering, science or
art were satirized and dismissed
 Obedience was all that required of them, where in Victorian Era was a period of
wide extremes.
 The industrial reforms, cultural transformations, scientific progress, gracious living
and grinding poverty and wars.
 The young ladies were groomed thoroughly to get married and had to be innocent,
virtuous, biddable and dutiful.
 Working women shouldered the double burden of waged work and the bulk of
household responsabilities.