W S 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Family Wage, Boarding House, Baby Boom
11 Oct 2016
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Working class & poor: servants, bill posters. Signal women: seamstresses, boarding house owners or supervisors, teachers. Less common (2%: doctors, drivers, lawyers. Valentina dmitrieve (first women doctor) jeanna chauvin (first lawyer in france) Bourgeois ideology: private women vs public men sphere. Males wealth and social status tied to: profession, non-working wife, number servants. Ideology= masked class privilege: home economics, being mother=profession, mostly middle class, family wage economy= all members work; mostly working & poor classes. Female & children in factories: better suited for some tasks, experience (ex: sewing, lower salaries. Usa: massive drought & swarms of pests=very few jobs. Accused of taking jobs away from males. Females still encouraged in (cid:862)retur(cid:374) ho(cid:374)e(cid:863) duri(cid:374)g (cid:272)rises. Give up jobs to returning service men. Additional wages= more money to consume goods. More females in workforce & in variety of jobs. Ha(cid:374)(cid:374)a 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) Female= still lower-paid and less prestigious jobs. Female= increasing employed because of: feminism, serval financial crises.
