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2. Women's work - Wikipedia

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   Women's work. 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.

3. Women in the workforce - Wikipedia

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   Although men spend more time in paid work, women still spend more time, in general, doing both paid and unpaid work. The numbers are 482.5 minutes per day for women and 454.4 minutes per day for men. [70] These statistics show us that there is a double burden for women.

4. Pink-collar worker - Wikipedia

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   A pink-collar worker is someone working in the care-oriented career field or in fields historically considered to be women's work. This may include jobs in the beauty industry, nursing, social work, teaching, secretarial work, or child care. [1] While these jobs may also be filled by men, they have historically been female-dominated (a tendency ...

5. Where Women Work: 20 Most Common Occupations - AOL

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   It seems we haven't "come a long way baby" at all. In fact, according to the latest numbers released by the United States Department of Labor, the Leading Occupations of Employed Women for 2009 ...

6. Women in Bletchley Park - Wikipedia

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   About 7,500 women worked in Bletchley Park, the central site for British cryptanalysts during World War II.Women constituted roughly 75% of the workforce there. [1] While women were overwhelmingly under-represented in high-level work such as cryptanalysis, they were employed in large numbers in other important areas, including as operators of cryptographic and communications machinery ...

7. Women in the United States labor force from 1945 to 1950

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   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 aviation industry saw the highest increase in female workers during the war.