... and school, one in which the idea of "good citizen" now merely means an employed person who has been certified by the schools as competent. However, educators, government, and businesses are making it more difficult for non-qualified people to get jobs despite evidence that alternatives to qualifications not only work, but are more cost-effective than additional years spent ... 1980's however recent findings suggest that women are out performing men. It has now been suggested that female underachievement has been grossly exaggerated due to the pressure for staying at home, females were n...

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... respectful to work, and if they did it was assumed that their husbands were not rich enough to support the family. Most didn't even have to do the work at home as they had people to do it for them. This made them increasingly dissatisfied and idle and as time went on they wanted to be given the opportunity to work ... 12 hour days every day. Another industry that had a great many women working for it was the "sweated trades", maybe even as many as 950,000. The "sweated trades" were businesses where women were made to all sit together in a stuffy room with no windows thus causing sweat a...

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