Women rarely had the chance to be bigger and better than men, they always took lower end jobs or no jobs at all. Women began working in factories where they earned a minimum wage of about four to eight dollars a week. Women began fighting for their right to be placed in high-end jobs during the Progressive Era. During the Progressive Era women fought for their right to be placed in higher paying jobs and did so very successfully. In the early 1800s women were allowed to go to school for the first time. At school they took women's courses that included becoming a better woman and wife to her husband. Around 1850 women were first allowed to study medicine. In the early 1900s, an organization called the Women's Trade and Union League (WTUL) was founded. This organization helped ensure women had better working conditions, fair wages, and encouraged women to join the labor movement. Another organization was formed by congress in the 1920s to help ensure better working conditions, wage welfare, and increase employment opportunities: this group was called The Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor. Education was an important part of life that women did not have. including up to the early 1800s. Going to school then was not about gaining an education in your field of work, but about becoming better wives to your husbands and becoming a better woman in life with better manners. Women only began to earn the same degrees as men in the mid-1800s. The main degrees that women began to earn were bachelor's degrees and medical degrees. In the late 1920s there was a thought that if a woman went to college she would never get married because she had to... half of the paper... eligible, employment."" During this time women worked in unsafe environments to very low wages and for long hours. The Bureau fought to change these working conditions for women to make them more pleasant To ensure that they worked and could also earn a living. This Bureau continued for many years to help change women's working conditions to give them fair hours and wages. The Progressive Era brought many changes for women. They were eventually allowed to get an education, which meant they could get high-end jobs. After attending college, more entrepreneurs wanted women with a higher college education. Many unions united and fought for the right to fair wages and better working conditions. which made more women want to work. During the Progressive Era the push for high-end jobs by women was successful and after that it only got better.