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Unlike the white women urban workers we read about for this week, this piece shows how little choice black women urban workers had in occupations. Most were domestic servants. Even those who were educated or had other job training could not get the jobs they wanted and were qualified for. The racial discrimination they experienced kept them locked into a job they felt was socially degrading and that provided little personal freedom and low wages. Due to being turned down, or even the fear of being turned down, most were kept them from seeking jobs outside of domestic service. So while white women with an education or job training could afford to be independent and had new job opportunities opened to them, black women were less likely to be able to experience this type of independence. | Unlike the white women urban workers we read about for this week, this piece shows how little choice black women urban workers had in occupations. Most were domestic servants. Even those who were educated or had other job training could not get the jobs they wanted and were qualified for. The racial discrimination they experienced kept them locked into a job they felt was socially degrading and that provided little personal freedom and low wages. Due to being turned down, or even the fear of being turned down, most were kept them from seeking jobs outside of domestic service. So while white women with an education or job training could afford to be independent and had new job opportunities opened to them, black women were less likely to be able to experience this type of independence. | ||
--Nancy Lee | --Nancy Lee | ||
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| + | This article is sad because it shows us how race oriented people were even after the Civil War, but it is already a well known that Blacks did not reach any kind of true equality until the 20th century though. Actually, while I was reading this, I came up with kind of a random but related question: In the Antebellum South, when there was still slavery, the slaves would "fight back" in any way they could, including pretending to be really stupid so that they may screw up the task assigned to them, etc. So, I was wondering if this form of retaliation might have had any sort of negative impact after the Civil War for blacks searching for jobs (mostly in the south since that is where such things usually took place)? -Kristina.S. | ||
== Clara Lanza, 1891, defends the female office clerk in NY == | == Clara Lanza, 1891, defends the female office clerk in NY == | ||
