HIEU 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Premarital Sex, Maternal Death, Infant Mortality
Document Summary
Hieu 140 lecture 4 life and work: working class women. Industrial revolution and the new gender system for working class women. The new gender system and working class women. Gender ideology of separate spheres and the working class. Gap between ideals vs. economic realities for working class families. Ideal of the financially independent man: cannot live up to the ideal of being a breadwinner, breadwinner role becomes aspirational for working class men, middle class culture as the aspirational culture. The family wage and its paradoxical impact on women. A gendered labor force: with industries: women are only allowed to do certain jobs within an industry, ex: women working above ground in mining industry, across industries: women are only allowed to work in certain industries, ex: textiles. Jobs that women take are defined as being low-skill and low-pay. Fears that a woman working will destroy the family: no one to educate/care for the children.
