Changing Roles Of Women

Question 1

Where did women work during the 1700s-1800s?

Answer 1

Most women worked at home raising children, preparing food, making clothes, and caring for farm animals

Question 2

Where did an increasing number of women work during the late 1800s?

Answer 2

An increasing number of women worked outside of their house as they were given job opportunities and a chance to earn money

Question 3

Where/what did most women work as during this evolutionary period

Answer 3

-domestic servants
-stores
-offices
-telephone operators
-secretaries
-factories
-sweatshop
-nurses
-midwifes
-assembly lines in factories
-worked in the clothing industry

Question 4

What percentage of women made up the manufacturing workforce in 1891 in Ontario

Answer 4

34%

Question 5

How were women in the workforce discriminated against?

Answer 5

-faced difficult conditions
-paid less than men
-treated poorly

Question 6

Between ____ and ____, female labour force increased by ____%.

Answer 6

1901, 1911, 50%

Question 7

Compared to men, how much were women paid??

Answer 7

50-60% of male counterparts earnings

Question 8

When were women given the right to hold political office (be part of the government)?

Answer 8

1919

Question 9

Why were women flooding the workforce in WW1?

Answer 9

men went to war and they needed people to fill in their spots/to work for money

Question 10

What did they do to women after the men came back from war, and how did women respond to it?

Answer 10

-Women were forced to leave their jobs
-they protested to keep their positions and fought for equal rights

Question 11

What happened after women were able to run for public office?

Answer 11

-Increase pay
-gave them independence
-didn’t rely on men