20. Women and work in 1920s - Women's Civil Rights in USA
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- Women and work in 1920s - Women's Civil Rights in USA (economic)
- Women still faced discrimination and attitudes slow to change
- 12% of wives worked because needed to support families, not means of independence
- This 12% made up 28% if women workforce
- AA or immigrant women predominantly still worked mainly as domestics or in textiles
- Bulk of female labour unmarried (implies no departure from British attitudes concerning women)
- Bulk of female labour unmarried (implies no departure from British attitudes concerning married women)
- Female occupations were more varied but in offices women often suffered from deep-seated sexual prejudice
- Much less likely to make decisions than men
- Single women looking for work by 1930 was overwhelmingly likely to be a secretary, a clerk, saleswoman, waitress or hairdresser
- Better educated women would be teachers or nurses
- Considerable degree of continuity with pre-war era despite some surface changes and despite experience of WW1
- At root:
- Expectations women would run home]
- Difficulties in preventing unwanted pregnancies
- Entrenched male attitudes in inequality of pay
- divisions among women about what their role should be
- ensured that past had something of a dead hand on women's rights and progress
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