What was the cause of jane addams social work movement?

Jane Addams' social work movement was sparked through the witnessing of social injustice toward women of her time. In the United States at the time, women lacked many rights that men already had. Seeing this as a problem of inequality in the United States, this inspired Jane Addams to begin her movement of social work to aid women's causes in the United States with the ultimate goal of equality in the form of voting rights, property ownership, etc