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How did Francis Cabot Lowell begin to transform the role of women in the United States?

He offered women a chance to earn a living.
He raised women’s pay in the textile industry.
He refused to allow women to work under dangerous conditions.
He improved women’s work conditions by shortening their hours.

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He offered women a chance to earn a living.

Lowell’s mills recruited young women (the “Lowell Mill Girls”), providing paid factory work, boardinghouses, and supervised conditions that opened new economic and social opportunities for women.