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In what ways does the Industrial Revolution affect the opportunities and constraints in women’s lives in the 19th century? In the 19th century women were expected to live in the home and be constrained to the affairs of the household and family (children, her husband). The average woman had no political influence she was dependant on her husband for nearly everything she needed or wanted to do. The thought that women were inferior to men manifested in the entire society, you saw examples of it in the class structure where rarely women were given identification, government positions- women were never found in control of anything, where you saw women were places that the men felt it was okay. There is one thing you must know, that women were never happy with these roles and throughout the 19th century women fought and struggled to be seen as equals.