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After reading Burdens of Rural Women’s Lives I thought that the rural farm woman’s life was incredibly difficult and I stated that it was as tough if not tougher than urban working class women’s lives. However, after reading The Story of a Glove Maker I think I changed my mind. Urban working women had to work in factories with irregular pay and irregular hours all they while they were threatened by their male superiors who could fire them at a moments notice. Not only did they have to worry about keeping their jobs, but they had to worry about being sexually exploited. All the while, these women, too, had to worry about keeping their homes. They also seemed to have fewer opportunities for advancement than the rural farm women. The farm women worked incredibly hard, but the author of Burdens of Rural Women’s Lives had the ability to be educated and have her children be educated, one of her children was at Cornell University! She also seemed to have a lot to show for her work, while it seems that urban women were working hard just to get by. I don’t know if it is fair to compare and contrast, but these women all had difficult lives. –Erin Sanderson | After reading Burdens of Rural Women’s Lives I thought that the rural farm woman’s life was incredibly difficult and I stated that it was as tough if not tougher than urban working class women’s lives. However, after reading The Story of a Glove Maker I think I changed my mind. Urban working women had to work in factories with irregular pay and irregular hours all they while they were threatened by their male superiors who could fire them at a moments notice. Not only did they have to worry about keeping their jobs, but they had to worry about being sexually exploited. All the while, these women, too, had to worry about keeping their homes. They also seemed to have fewer opportunities for advancement than the rural farm women. The farm women worked incredibly hard, but the author of Burdens of Rural Women’s Lives had the ability to be educated and have her children be educated, one of her children was at Cornell University! She also seemed to have a lot to show for her work, while it seems that urban women were working hard just to get by. I don’t know if it is fair to compare and contrast, but these women all had difficult lives. –Erin Sanderson | ||
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| + | I agree with Erin on a lot of the points she made. This piece captured my attention because of the harsh conditions that these women were forced to work in. I found in particularly difficult to not feel bad for the girls because stress they had to endure by working in industrial places like a glove factory. Nestor references how the girls tried to find ways to produce more gloves in an hour and would sometimes even work during their breaks just to get more done. She also revealed how the women were afraid of the machine breaking because it meant they could not make more gloves, which meant they would not get their payment. Nestor shows the effect of industry on the working woman and it's effects. I wonder how women at this time dealt with professions like this without getting extremely frustrated. -abratchi | ||
== Fannie Barrier Williams Describes the "Problem of Employment for Negro Women," 1903 == | == Fannie Barrier Williams Describes the "Problem of Employment for Negro Women," 1903 == | ||
