ome independence, they were subjected to grueling hours and were underpaid (Lecture, 1/26). The government taxed Workingwomen that were self-supporting. Because the conditions for single women in society were usually unfavorable and there was considerable pressure towards the morality of marriage, most women decided to marry. Once married, the women had to leave their work.
             The institution of marriage and domesticity was woman's "voluntary choice amounting to self-abrogation" (Cott, 78). A woman that married was immediately subjected to a role outlined and governed by her husband. "Law and custom granted the husband's ownership, not only of his wife's labor power and the wages she earned by it, but of her physical person as well, in the sexual rights of the marriage relation" (Hartmann, 15). Women that were married remained at home and were "defined politically, economically, and socially by their family position" (Hartmann, 16). Separate Spheres created many restrictions on women, seven of which are addressed in the "Declaration of Sentiments" created through the First Women's Rights Movement (all are listed in Hartmann, 28-29). First, women are not able to exercise their "right to an elective franchise." She has no voice in the formation of laws that she must obey. She is left "without representation in the halls of legisl
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