- Illinois suffragist fought for women to get more right.
- Women weren't seen to be good in journalism, so they only wrote about "fashion and entertainment."
- Virginia Marmaduke, stopped women from just working in those areas, she showed everyone, by working for "Herrin Daily Journal" that she could write and cover stories “just as well as her male counterparts."
- Civil War had taken many fathers,brothers, and husbands to war to which they left many jobs behind.
- Giving women a chance to find a new identity for themselves.
- During this women also got to start work in the medical field along with many others.