Women's culture

Question 1

Women’s culture referred to

Answer 1

Mostly white and middle class women

Question 2

Middle class ideal did not mean

Answer 2

All women’s culture
Excluded African and Native American women

Question 3

Mill girls, African and Native American women led a

Answer 3

Physically laborious life
Hard physical labour

Question 4

Women’s culture defined

Answer 4

The women in society
Influential to society as a whole

Question 5

Industrialisation

Answer 5

Drove men and women’s work away from each other
Traditional farm families had shared projects but separate gendered jobs

Question 6

Middle class women had no right

Answer 6

To earn wages or own property
Had to contribute to the family

Question 7

Women’s business was done

Answer 7

From the home
Not measured by their domesticity
Understood the family’s craft

Question 8

Farm/artisan households

Answer 8

Work was in the home
Little separation between work and home

Question 9

Industrialisation led to specialisation of jobs

Answer 9

Work became located in larger facilities or specific locations
Moving away from home

Question 10

Artisans left the home of the master

Answer 10

Work was found elsewhere
Women copied

Question 11

Farm daughters took on work in

Answer 11

Textile industries in the 1840s
In department stores
As teachers

Question 12

Women received

Answer 12

Lower pay than men
Expected to leave the workforce when they got married, to make a home