HIS-215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Truck Driver, Sex Segregation, Deskilling
Document Summary
Women, great depression, and wwii: gendered work and sex-typing. Roots of that experience are 30s and 40s. We want to look at within the context of this time period is why gender roles become so destabilized. Why that creates longterm change: gendered work and sex-typing. Sex-typing: pattern of labor market sex segregation. Female jobs declined less and later in great depression. Increased independence of younger generation on older ones delayed or prevented new families. 1929: 10. 1 marriages per 1000 (year stock market crashed) Decline in legal divorce disguises high desertion rate. Decline in sexual relations, either to express discord or prevent pregnancy. Crowding from doubling up smaller quarters, and unemployment increased con ict. Family con ict: middle class su ered, but lower class and working class already were working as female and making ends meet. Women"s employment grew 50% (140% in manufacturing) in wwii: taking jobs in manufacturing but the jobs that were created for them were labeled women"s jobs.