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I liked how this document showed the want for women to work in the swiss watch shop because "women have proved their ability to execute the most delicates parts." Normally reading historical documents, it is the men who are wanted to work in a factory on a specific detail and now it shows Switzerland and France has pushed passed the gender stereotypes where the women stay home and dont belong in the working industry. --Maggie Wroe | I liked how this document showed the want for women to work in the swiss watch shop because "women have proved their ability to execute the most delicates parts." Normally reading historical documents, it is the men who are wanted to work in a factory on a specific detail and now it shows Switzerland and France has pushed passed the gender stereotypes where the women stay home and dont belong in the working industry. --Maggie Wroe | ||
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| + | It's interesting how Kelly and Elle's thoughts on the "women will run off and get married" theory seem to clash. I think I agree with Elle. I think the societal expectation of the time was that women of a certain age should be married, and once they were married work was usually not an option. We can all agree these norms are horrible, but I do believe they existed. I'm most curious as to why they didn't in Europe. - Matt S | ||
== Michael Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men == | == Michael Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men == | ||
