
- 190 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Women and Work
About this book
In this book, first published in 1975, the author examines the role of women in the workforce. Despite representing a rapidly increasing section of the workforce, why are women still overwhelmingly confined to unskilled jobs? Why do they hold such a tiny proportion of managerial and professional posts? In answering these vital questions Ross Davies shows how women's economic roles in pre-industrial society were modified and distorted by industrialisation; how this legacy of exploitation has affected contemporary attitudes among both men and women; and how the present situation should be seen and assessed in its proper perspective.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Original Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Working women today: a wasted resource
- 2 Pre-industrial woman
- 3 The Industrial Revolution
- 4 Trade unions: men only
- 5 The professions close ranks
- 6 The two world wars: votes and jobs
- 7 Women's attitudes to work
- 8 Work's attitudes to women
- 9 Women and the professions today: too little, too late
- 10 Married women: burying the talents
- 11 Second thoughts set in
- 12 Equality and the law
- Notes to chapters
- Index