WS102 Lecture Notes - Gender Pay Gap, Pink-Collar Worker, Extreme Poverty

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WS102
• Professor: Tina Davidson

Document Summary

Often equal marriage in terms of labor and profit. Women didn"t have voice in saying where money went. Hard life: lived life of repetition, struggling to survive, isolation from others. Worked as entrepreneurs selling surplus eggs, jams, wool, bread. Worked as field hands on own farms or for pay on neighboring farms. Daughters contributed labor to farm and worked off farm as domestic servants. Started in europe, experienced as traumatic event, caused upheaval in working/living/surviving. Entire family produced just what they needed to survive. Families moved into paid labor on large farms and in city factories. Men got factory jobs before women, male labor was most valuable. Most women stayed in home, but some worked beside men in factory or did piece work ex. Sewing on buttons (taking pieces of work from factory to work on at home) Women tended to stay in home to manage family"s limited income.