Women in a typing pool, date unknown. Married women of the era were not allowed to own property — not even their own clothes. They could legally be beaten by their husbands, and earned a small fraction of the wages men earned.
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A prolific writer, Abigail Scott Duniway founded the Portland based newspaper, The New Northwest, in 1871. The newspaper gave women in the Pacific Northwest a voice they previously didn't have. One of the most popular features in the paper was chapters of Duniway's serial novels. Duniway felt the suffragist movement would reach a wider audience through her novels, which described the many hardships women faced in their daily lives.
Watch the Oregon Experience documentary "Abigail Scott Duniway" to learn more about how the right to vote was secured for women in Oregon.
This series is in partnership with The Oregon Historical Society
