W S 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Family Wage, Boarding House, Baby Boom

• School: Iowa State University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: W S 201
• Professor: Michele Schaal

Document Summary

Working class and poor women: servants, bill posters. Single women: seamstresses, boarding house owners or supervisors, teachers. Bourgeois ideology: private (female) vs. public (male) sphere. Me(cid:374)"s (cid:449)ealth a(cid:374)d so(cid:272)ial status tied to: profession, non-working wife, number of servants. Ideology = masked class privilege: home economics: being mother = profession; mostly middle class, family wage economy = all members work; mostly working and poor classes. Women and children in factories: (cid:862)(cid:271)etter(cid:863) suited for so(cid:373)e tasks, experience (ex: sewing, lower salaries. Usa: massive drought and swarms of pests = very few jobs. Women discouraged from working: accused of taking jobs away from men, wo(cid:373)e(cid:374) still e(cid:374)(cid:272)ouraged to (cid:862)retur(cid:374) ho(cid:373)e(cid:863) duri(cid:374)g (cid:272)rises. Additional wage = more money to consume goods. More women in workforce and in variety of jobs. Hanna rosi(cid:374) (cid:862)the e(cid:374)d of me(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:895) Women: still lower-paid and less prestigious jobs. Women increasingly employed because of: feminism, several financial crises. Consequences of a binary system (cid:862)wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:449)ork(cid:863) de(cid:448)alued.