Not only did they have to do the housewife duties of cooking, cleaning and motherly chores but also go out and earn the money for the family undertaking jobs such as domestic servants, mill workers, as well as working on farms or shops if the wives of farmers and shop owners. ... With 1,740,800 women working as domestic servants by 1914 it was the most common job. ... For the girls who wanted get a high class job they needed to have good qualifications but women were still not allowed to go to university in the early 1800's and it was very hard to find a job without having a degree but th...

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