5. Women and work Flashcards
1
Q
Women continued to face
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discrimination
attitudes were slow to change
2
Q
Most of the ___ of wives who worked in the 1920s did so because they needed to support their families, not as a means of independence.
A
12%
3
Q
female workforce
A
Still worked mainly as domestic or textiles
Predominantly AA or immigrants
Bulk of female labour was unmarried
4
Q
In office women suffered from
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deep-seated sexual prejudice
5
Q
Better educated women would be
A
teachers or nurses
6
Q
Root =
A
expectations that women would run the home.
7
Q
Single woman looking for work in 1930s likely to be a
A
hairdresser, secretary, clerk, saleswoman or a waitress
8
Q
overview
A
Considerable degree of continuity with pre-war era despite some surface changes and despite experience of ww1
