Civil War was something that would do nothing but only shed blood and lower the economy. But not for the American women. Men were at the battlefields there was no one to run the factories and the cotton fields. Women of America had a great opportunity to show their greatness and that they deserve respect in the society by filling empty fields and factories and also helping the men along the battlefield. The Civil War …
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…Very few women chose to stay home. Women were not paid as much as the men were when they occupied the job. Just because they were women they had a very low pay. But in return they got respect and their status in the society went up. Yet, claims were denied just because it gave the women more rights. The Civil war helped the efforts by women to improve their status in the American society.