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As we could see during the Gilded Age that child labor was very shown during this time. Many companies used children because children were small and had tiny hands so they could fit through many things, they also were cheap so business owners would pay children so little for the high amount of hours they would work, and they were easy to manipulate and intimidate so it was easy to tell children what to and also threaten or scare them to listen. Many muckrakers these were people who would expose bad business practices and the poor immigration living conditions they were working in. Many found these people and children working in horrible conditions many girls were working very close the machines and would be easy for their hair to become tangled with the textile machines. Also, many of the small children were put to do one job all day and their hands would become numb by the end of the day and become very dry, hurt, and also affect their bone structure. They also discovered th...

  Yes, it does. But how? One major example is Feminism or Women's Power, lord let me tell has it changed. But where did it all begin well let's go back to 1942 during World War Two when the role of women changed. A very popular poster called Rosie the Riveter became very known around the United States.  In this poster, Rosie is dressed in American colors while flexing her arm to show American citizens that women are perfectly capable of accomplishing the “masculine” jobs. Then as the war came to an end the many men returned home and sent the women back home to do their regular job called being a mother and wife. This was a big change factor because it opens many women's eyes to see that they also have the right and capacity to work in the work force.  The United States Department of Work Labor found that since the 1950's to 2015 women participating in the work force has increased from thirty-two percent to fifty-six percent, WOW! that's a major difference and...