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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schweitzer, Sylvie
• Laufer, Jacqueline
• Maruani, Margaret
• Jenson, Jane

Titel

Where Have They Been Working and What Have They Been Doing? Historical Perspectives on Working Women

Ist Teil von

• The Gendering of Inequalities: Women, Men and Work, 2000, p.49-57

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Women and girls were also taught bookkeeping, and not only because they were being trained for work in the public sector. In France as the 20th century began women were found in a variety of jobs and positions. In the 1906 census, of every 1000 women in work, one-third claimed to be workers, ten per cent employers or owners (patronnes), but one half were "isolated," perhaps meaning that they did domestic work. The story of women's work in the textile industry is long and repetitive. Women spin, sew and weave, while men cut and repair. Turnover rates were very similar for women and men. Women could be mothers, and some even married while they were employed in the store. Spurred on by the arrival of the millennium, perhaps researchers will finally discover that women's position in the working world was quite different from the conventional image we have of it and that their pay was always much lower.