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This 11 page report discusses the history of women’s education and employment in Great Britain from 1850 to 1980. Of special note in the paper are the reasons attitudes regarding married women working outside the home changed from 1914 to 1980. Not surprisingly, key factors such as war, economic necessity, social class, and the advent of the Industrial Age all influenced virtually all of those changes. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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their contributions have varied according to the structure, needs, customs, and attitudes of society. Anthropologists are convinced that in prehistoric times, women and men shared an almost equal responsibility for
hunting and gathering activities to obtain food. As agricultural became the focus of most communities, womens work revolved more around the home. Since ancient times, it is possible to reduce
assumptions about womens paid work to four fundamental distinctions: (1) Women have worked because of economic necessity; poor women in particular worked outside the home because they were unmarried or
because their partners were unable to sustain the family solely through their own work. (2) Womens paid work has often been similar to their work at home. (3) Women have
maintained the primary responsibility for raising children, regardless of their paid work. (4) Women have almost always been paid less than men for their work.
Of course, some major changes have taken place and continue to occur, particularly in the more developed nations. Such changes have steadily enlarged the number of
women in the labor force, due in large part to: decreasing family responsibilities (due to both smaller family size and technological innovation in the home); higher levels of education for
women; and, more middle- and upper-income women choosing to follow a specific profession and/or simply work for pay by choice rather than economic survival.
In Great Britain, the same factors played a significant role in the development of society and the role of women as working and educated participants in that society,
During the 130 years between 1850 and 1980, more changes were made in the status of women in the workplace in Britain than in a combination of all of the
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