What were the Catholic and Protestant views on Women in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
The view about women during that time was very bad by today’s standards. They were second class citizens. They could not vote, or even own property. Even when I was a younger woman in the 1960’s, I could not get a mortgage without either my husband or father signing it. Things changed after the women’s movement of the 1970’s. The Catholic church was about like it still is today. They think that women should be baby factories, etc. And some of the Protestants have not changed much either with their ‘no women should speak in church’ and a ‘woman is subject to her husband’ crap. Thank God I am an Episcopalian!!
