How did the roles of women in the industrial workforce grow and change throughout the nineteenth century?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. Roles of Women
1. made a substantial contribution to the success of industrialization
2. biggest source of employment for women was the result of other social and
economic changes
a. urbanization increased demand for domestic servants and for
retail staff in shops and markets
3. women were dragged into new forms of work in the unindustrialized or
deindustrialized worlds
a. Indian tea plantations relied on female labor
b. new economic opportunities of the era led men to assert claims to
women's labor and to the proceeds that labor earned
4. employed where men could best exploit them
a. half the women claimed that they worked because their husbands
could not earn enough to support their families
5. perceived as ideal for certain industrial tasks but also treated as marginally
efficient workers
6. mechanization took them out of the labor market
a. society rationalized the process by representing it as a form of
liberation and even of elevating the status of women
b. artists, advertisers, and writers spread images of delicate femininity
7. women liberated from work were assigned a role and rights that resembled,
in some respects, those of children
8. women did exert new influence in traditional male arenas without
succumbing to new forms of exploitation