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40% of all Spanish working women in 1930 worked in domestic roles, representing the largest single industry for which women were present. [7] Despite Primo de Rivera's view about the role of women, women were still able at times to have high ranking places in Spanish bureaucracy. [11]
During the early years of settlement in the late 19th century, farm women played an integral role in assuring family survival by working outdoors. After a generation or so, women increasingly left the fields, thus redefining their roles within the family. New conveniences such as sewing and washing machines encouraged women to turn to domestic ...
This represented a drop of 12% of all women and 0.5 million total women in the workforce from 1877 to 1930. [1] By the 1900s, women could and did sometimes work in factory sweatshops, alongside young male workers. [7] Most women seeking employment outside their homes worked in the homes of the more affluent in the country. [7]
The policy of the Franco regime with regard to women was a huge setback for the Republic as it set out to impose the traditional Catholic family model based on the total subordination of the wife to her husband and reduce them back to the domestic sphere as it had been proclaimed in the Labor Charter of 1938 in order "to free the married woman ...
Inherent in the study of women's history is the belief that more traditional recordings of history have minimised or ignored the contributions of women to different fields and the effect that historical events had on women as a whole; in this respect, women's history is often a form of historical revisionism, seeking to challenge or expand the ...
1930s in women's sport (23 C) W. Women in war 1900–1945 (3 C, 109 P) Pages in category "1930s in women's history" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of ...
The role of a woman in Francoist Spain was to be a mother. [7] [8] Questioning this role for women was tantamount to questioning the nature and rights of the state, and viewed as a subversive act. [7] In Francoist Spain, women were not endowed by God with business ingenuity, nor the capacity to be involved in war.
The belief that women would vote as a block, a widespread fear during the suffrage movement, was proven wrong with the development of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. There were also many women who joined auxiliary groups to fight alongside their husbands or other male relations against the Eighteenth Amendment.