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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 | ||
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| + | Last year I read a book about modern domestic service, an field that was mostly dominated by latin american women. In the book one of the discussions dealt with the comparisons between women who were live in housekeepers and those that commuted to their job from there own home. I wonder if there was any such comparison with 19th century domestic workers. I'd imagine that young girls were much more likely to live with their employers then older women in the service. But were domestic servants mostly young or older women?----Emma Peck | ||
== Isabel Eaton, 1899, research on black servants in Philadelphia == | == Isabel Eaton, 1899, research on black servants in Philadelphia == | ||
