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I wanted to add to Rebecca's first comment on the non-wage-earning woman because I think that there are other factors that play in. To some extent the housewife's role is more appreciated, because it means that their family is well-enough off to be able to afford to have a family member who does not earn an external income. Also, there is the factor that the wife is willing to not work in order to take care of the household and any young children. In both cases, I think the work of the homemaker is appreciated, but at the same time I think they are overlooked or dismissed because women now have the option of working outside the home and not being seen as amoral or pretending above their station. I think many of these women would be passed off as not being able to stand up for themselves or able to support themselves outside of the nuclear family structure. -Lacey | I wanted to add to Rebecca's first comment on the non-wage-earning woman because I think that there are other factors that play in. To some extent the housewife's role is more appreciated, because it means that their family is well-enough off to be able to afford to have a family member who does not earn an external income. Also, there is the factor that the wife is willing to not work in order to take care of the household and any young children. In both cases, I think the work of the homemaker is appreciated, but at the same time I think they are overlooked or dismissed because women now have the option of working outside the home and not being seen as amoral or pretending above their station. I think many of these women would be passed off as not being able to stand up for themselves or able to support themselves outside of the nuclear family structure. -Lacey | ||
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| + | I think the role of none-wage-earning women is hard to compare to today. Gender equality was not nearly as evolved as it is today and equality in the workplace is something women in the 1800s did not experience. The contributions women made then and make today are very different as well. I don't think as many working-class wives and mothers today need to scavenge the docks for shoes or scrape flour out of an old barrel. However this essay tells us of where women fit in with the transition to family wages and we know how important they were. What I don't understand is how men in some families could witness women's contributions and still think they spent "more time trifling than a baby"? -Amanda | ||
