The Cult of True Womanhood is essentially a mood that related true womanhood with virtue, purity, piety, domesticity, and submissiveness. American men used this attitude towards women to restrain women from getting involved in politics. During this time, there was a common belief that industrialization made men feminine. With the switch from manual labor on the frontier to office jobs, working class men felt a loss of masculinity. Therefore, men fought to preserve their masculinity by imposing the Cult of True Womanhood which closely corresponded with Muscular Christianity. Muscular Christianity attempted to counteract the changing status of women by de-feminizing men and encouraging men to go to gyms. Men maintained keeping women out of politics by using the above claims to deny women the right to vote. Denying women this right furthered the inequality between the sexes and conveyed that women are not fully privileged citizens of the United