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A 5 page paper which examines the reasons for increased participation, including changes in the economy, higher education attainment, free contraception, women’s changing attitudes and the significance of part-time work. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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to the war, it was as if Great Britain was forever frozen in a Victorian Era time warp with social and economic roles established along gender lines. Prior to
1939, women seldom ventured beyond home and hearth and only then it was confined to semiskilled professions in domestic service, which was little more than an extension of their wife
and mother persona (Mckibbin, 1998). There were further designations in the labor market based on the marital status of the female, which further illustrates how male-dominated the British pre-war
society was. For instance in 1931, eight years before the Nazis invaded Poland, only 9.9 percent of married women participated in Great Britains labor force, compared with 69.6 of
unmarried females (either single or widowed) (Costa 106). However, twenty years later, after World War II, 23.6 percent of married women were now permanent fixtures in the workforce as
were 72.3 percent of unmarried women (Costa 106). There can be no doubt that the increased participation of women in the British labor market can be attributed to five significant
events that occurred following the Second World War - changes in the economy; the attainment of higher education by women; increased birth control practices and free contraception; the changing attitudes
of women; and the availability of part-time work. After the war, Great Britain could deny the influence of technology no longer and as the labor force became more automated
and specialized, the white-collar workers began to dominate the workplace while "the influence of industrial laborers and the lower middle class waned" (Black et al., 2000, p. 357). Education
became a necessity for career advancement and because women had been encouraged to venture out into the workplace during the war to keep the economy going, they had discovered they
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