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== Lucy Maynard Salmon, 1897, Vassar Historian who studied domestic service == | == Lucy Maynard Salmon, 1897, Vassar Historian who studied domestic service == | ||
| + | Lucy Maynard Salmon's study of domestic service demonstrates the reasons why few women choose to work as house servants. The chart lists employees' answers to "What reasons can you give why more women do not choose housework as a regular employment?" (419-420). The most prominent answer from domestics is "Pride, social condition, and unwillingness to be called servants." Looking at this answer makes me think that women of this time have more opportunities outside of domestic servitude that are less demeaning. For example, in class we discussed the emergence of other occupations, such as, teaching, nursing, and secretarial work. These jobs grant women with more freedom than domestic servitude through promotions, more free time, or stable working hours. In addition, the quote from a young factory operative points out reasons that I did not think about or necessarily agree with, but her answer is still interesting. She states that, "Then I think shop or factory girls make the best wive... The domestic after she gets married gets careless. She don't take the pride in her home that the shop girl does. She has lived in such fine houses that her small tenement has no beauty for her after the first glow of married life is over" (423). First, this quote resembles Helen Campbell's piece on shop girls who imitate their upper class clients. Since these women work close to the upper class they see and try to imitate that lifestyle. Second, its shows a divide among women workers. There are distinct groups of female workers, and these women judge each other for their occupations. -- Michelle M. | ||
== Isabel Eaton, 1899, research on black servants in Philadelphia == | == Isabel Eaton, 1899, research on black servants in Philadelphia == | ||
