Tarbell's Life and Work

In spite of her commitment to never marry or become a mother, ida tarbell didn't really support the women's suffrage ment or the women's rights movement. She said the difference in their tone and scope was because she hadn't found their businesses to be home to the kind of corruption that she had seen at standard oil. Tarbell also thought women were best suited to being wives and mothers. Her later works involving these themes include the business of being a woman in 19 12 and the ways of woman in 19 15. In 19 22, the new york times included her on its list of the 12 greatest living american women. Ida tarbell died a little less than seven