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I think the thing that struck me most about this article was the first industrial advantage. While I know it was not uncommon for a woman to work during this time period I had always thought it was out of necessity. ''' The idea of opportunities for promotion suggests the idea of a career to me as opposed to a job. Do you think jobs with promotions indicate a shift towards careers and less focus on the domestic duties of marriage?''' Later in the piece the young factory operative explains how domestic servants don't make good wives. I suppose I am just wondering what kind of role marriage played when women went looking for work. -John Rowley | I think the thing that struck me most about this article was the first industrial advantage. While I know it was not uncommon for a woman to work during this time period I had always thought it was out of necessity. ''' The idea of opportunities for promotion suggests the idea of a career to me as opposed to a job. Do you think jobs with promotions indicate a shift towards careers and less focus on the domestic duties of marriage?''' Later in the piece the young factory operative explains how domestic servants don't make good wives. I suppose I am just wondering what kind of role marriage played when women went looking for work. -John Rowley | ||
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| + | This set of readings reminds me of a ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn''Italic text''''. Like John, I was a little thrown off by the first and second disadvantages listed. My impression of this time period for working women did not include the idea of shopping for a career, which is how the questionnaires seemed to make it sound. Is it safe to assume that domestic servants were basically on-call day and night? In the footnotes, many of the comments from domestic servants mentioned the irritation of working on sundays, one commenting that it's actually extra work. The time that people in most other employment have to relax and be with family and friends is, by design, her busiest time. Like waiters and waitresses today. -erin b. | ||
I agree that the gaining a promotion does make this job seem more like a career. These women seemed content with working. I had also assumed that women that worked did it because they had to. I never thought that they found pride in it. I also agree with Megan that these women had a bigger part in the womens' rights movement than I had previously thought. I'm sure these women thought they had nothing in common with the middle class women working in the movement. Overall, I think they did play a part. It may not have been the part that middle class women would have wanted, but these women were out having careers at a time when women were supposed to stay at home. -Katelyn Lease | I agree that the gaining a promotion does make this job seem more like a career. These women seemed content with working. I had also assumed that women that worked did it because they had to. I never thought that they found pride in it. I also agree with Megan that these women had a bigger part in the womens' rights movement than I had previously thought. I'm sure these women thought they had nothing in common with the middle class women working in the movement. Overall, I think they did play a part. It may not have been the part that middle class women would have wanted, but these women were out having careers at a time when women were supposed to stay at home. -Katelyn Lease | ||
