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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