Gendered work

Question 1

Work divided by gender

Answer 1

During farming life
Became entirely separate after industrialisation

Question 2

Gender defined as

Answer 2

Cultural attributes assigned to sexed bodies

Question 3

Home became

Answer 3

Separate from the working world

Question 4

Urban family

Answer 4

Child rearing became women’s main role
Lost the economic role they had had previously

Question 5

Time and space organised

Answer 5

Differently
Leisure and work
Clearer boarders between private and public

Question 6

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg quote
Modern historian

Answer 6

“When work left the home, men freely followed it… women, in contrast, found themselves confined within it”

Question 7

The Woman’s Sphere

Answer 7

Ideology arose
Role of women in the 19thC

Question 8

Wife and mothers expected to

Answer 8

Create a place for children to grow in a virtuous home
Create a patriarchal home
Create a home providing a respite from the market
Reminded of Christian virtues

Question 9

Gendered work operated to limit the jobs middle class women could have

Answer 9

Having employment was seen as a conflict with the goals of domesticity

Question 10

Middle class women were dependant

Answer 10

On the males in their lives