•Revolution in production of retail goods meant the rise of department and other stores – shop work second most popular occupation for m-class behind teaching. Work was clean, respectable, but hours long – 85 hour week.
•Women could become teachers, but the legal profession remained closed until after WW1. Medicine – nursing acceptable by 1880s. Upper middle-class women were appointed as managing sisters, w-class as nurses.
•1874 – EGA and SJB opened London School of medicine for women to show women could do job of male doctors.
•Government legislation between 1867 and 1914, led to restrictions in women’s working hours and opportunities
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