1. Industrial Revolution
... machines. • Women excluded from many good or responsible jobs - idea grows that women cannot work as effectively as men. • Teaching and later nursing were open to some lower middle class women. • Some working class women continued to have to work, but even in that class many begin to stay at home. • If they do work it was ... they even dared to pay them with vouchers that were good for their own stores, where prices were very high. Men got 10 to 15 shillings per week, women got 5 shillings per week, and the children got a measly 1 shilling per week. In Britain in the 1830and 184...
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