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History of women in workforce. A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences by Alice Kessler-Harris (updated edition, 2014) Challenging Professions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Women's Professional Work by Elizabeth Smyth, Sandra Acker, Paula Bourne, and Alison Prentice (1999)
By 1945 there were 4.7 million women in clerical positions - this was an 89% increase from women with this occupation prior to World War II. [8] In addition, there were 4.5 million women working as factory operatives - this was a 112% increase since before the war. [ 8 ]
The 1920s saw the emergence of the co-ed, as women began attending large state colleges and universities. Women entered into the mainstream middle-class experience, but took on a gendered role within society. Women typically took classes such as home economics, "Husband and Wife", "Motherhood" and "The Family as an Economic Unit".
The #MeToo movement has helped expose sexual harassment in the workplace, but the difficulties that women face on the job are by no means limited to unwanted advances or inappropriate remarks. On ...
You may recognize names like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton from history class. They fought for women to have the right to vote. But the fight for women's equality is far from finished.
On January 1, the Massachusetts government enforces a law that allowed women to work a maximum of 54 hours instead of 56. Ten days later, affected workers discover that pay had been reduced along with the cut in hours. [64] 1915. The Supreme Court first considers the Expatriation Act of 1907 in the 1915 case MacKenzie v. Hare.
Women have made “meaningful gains in representation over the past decade,” according to the Women in the Workplace report published today by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey, particularly when it comes ...
Women's work is a field of labour assumed to be solely the realm of women and associated with specific stereotypical jobs considered as uniquely feminine or domestic duties throughout history. It is most commonly used in reference to the unpaid labor typically performed by that of a mother or wife to upkeep the home and children.