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'''The mechanization of labor and the promotion of consumer culture did nothing to help women get out of the kitchen as Kleinegger examines in her entry.''' Factories didn't even hire out to women workers, instead leaving those few jobs that existed to men whom were believed to be more suited to factory work. Mechanization did nothing but deepen the ravine between men and women in the labor force. Its amazing to see the blatant misdirection of advertising at the time to mislead people (mostly women, of course) into thinking these devices would improve their lot in life. - Scott Birney | '''The mechanization of labor and the promotion of consumer culture did nothing to help women get out of the kitchen as Kleinegger examines in her entry.''' Factories didn't even hire out to women workers, instead leaving those few jobs that existed to men whom were believed to be more suited to factory work. Mechanization did nothing but deepen the ravine between men and women in the labor force. Its amazing to see the blatant misdirection of advertising at the time to mislead people (mostly women, of course) into thinking these devices would improve their lot in life. - Scott Birney | ||
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| + | "Labor-saving devices failed to liberate women from housework; on the contrary, women spent at least as much time as before meeting higher standards, and the sexual division of labor in the home was reinforced." (Kleinegger, 186) I found this article to be quite enlightening. When I began reading I assumed that the wives of farmers at this point in American history went without the newest and greatest technology, to learn then that a number of farm women didn’t even have access to running water and a drain was appalling. And to add to that, often the life stock would have access to running water before it was set up in the house. This shows that there was a huge separation between the men and women of the farms. The money was spent on upgrading farming equipment and the barns, while the house and the wife went without. | ||
| + | The above section from the article also states that even when a wife owned some appliances, there was still an expectation for her to use her new “free time” productively. -Kathleen Mead | ||
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