ANTH 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Salaryman, Textile Industry, Work Unit
9 Apr 2015
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Anth 2230 lecture fourteen religion (ii) and gender (i) 13: grave for one generation (individual, couple, or collective, no succession, no maintenance o. Gender roles during the edo period variations according to class (based on prestige): The meiji/taisho periods: how did the availability of wage employment influence gender roles and relations? o o o o. With availability of wage employment, gender roles influenced wage employment had high status, salaries high enough to support family, wife could stay home and care for children. The family became a private domain among a small group of salarymen households. Good wives, wise mothers as a new national ideology. There were still many family farms and businesses (women were producers and reproducers) The meiji and taisho periods: many girls and young women (lower class backgrounds) became factory workers, gender roles varied according to class (socioeconomic status, supported the process of industrialization as workers, e. g.
