At the beginning, people where not to happy about it. People still thought that a women's place was in the home cooking. They where also unhappy because the girls never marry some times, because they are to busy with the work they have been given. It also made people apprehensive to have women with their own money. They saw this as a threat to society because women now had more power. But even with the power enhancement of women, the public became used to it.
It was easy to see that in order to become a more industrialized nation, cheap labor was needed, and the factory owners defiantly had no problem with it. They saw it as a cheap labor source, and even through there where supposed to be nice living spaces, and good work, that was completely wrong. The living quarters where cramped, they worked 6 days a week, and made about 75 cents a day. Most women quit after a year or so because of the strenuous labor involved. In the end, society realized that the women's place in society was changing, and not that it had started, there was no way to reverse the damage.
