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8. März 2014 · What 19th-century women really did In a talk on Monday (10 March, 2014) Sophie McGeevor (Faculty of History) will explain how her research into a collection of autobiographies by working class women is helping to fill a gap in our knowledge of the occupational structure of 19th century Britain.
- Women
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- Poverty
Poverty - What 19th-century women really did | University of...
- 19th Century
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- Women
Three medical professions were opened to women in the 19th century: nursing, midwifery, and doctoring. However, it was only in nursing, the one most subject to the supervision and authority of male doctors, that women were widely accepted. Many Victorians thought the doctor's profession belonged only to the male sex and a woman ...
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- The Historiography of Women’s Work in The British Censuses
- Revisiting ‘Women, Occupations and Work in The Nineteenth Century Censuses’
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There has long been a tendency amongst historians to view the Victorian and Edwardian censuses of England and Wales as a problematic source for studying the work of women. Census-taking in the period was a predominantly male affair – census enumerators, who were mainly men, gave to household heads, again mostly male, census household schedules whic...
Historians’ concerns over the recording of women’s work in the census have been voiced over a considerable period. In History Workshop Journal in 1986, for example, Sonya Rose argued that ‘many historians have shied away from census data because of some very serious shortcomings in the extent to which women's occupations are reflected in the enumer...
In my 1987 HWJ article I identified what I regarded as a number of shortcomings in the recording of the work of women in the Victorian censuses. They included the problems of casual and seasonal employments; the difficulty of determining whether women’s work in the home was part of the market economy or not; and the influence of the Victorian ideol...
Admission records relating to county asylums are a source rarely used or consulted for this purpose. Much of the detailed research carried out to date on the recording of women’s work in nineteenth-century England and Wales has been small in scale and very local in nature, focusing on the records of a single employer, or on the census enumeration b...
The levels of poverty and the bad living conditions experienced by many of the London working classes during the latter half of the nineteenth century were such that for large numbers of families, the ‘luxury’ of the wife simply being a housewife and mother was not a possibility. The image of the angel in the house, the domestic goddess of Victoria...
- Edward Higgs, Amanda Wilkinson
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29. März 2011 · Discover what life was like for Victorian women who worked wage-paying jobs alongside their domestic duties. How did this affect society?
Over the last five decades in Europe, the labour force was essentially renewed by growth in women’s employment. During the 1960s, women represented 30% of the European Union’s active population, as opposed to 45% in the early twenty-first century.
Between 1865 and 1920 a steady transformation occurred in employment patterns as more women entered the labor market, stayed at work longer, and moved into white-collar occupations. Nevertheless, women’s economic experiences remained distinct from men’s, subject to gendered limitations, and determined by demographic characteristics to a ...
9. Dez. 2020 · This special issue on women’s labour in the nineteenth century picks up these threads: manual labour, intellectual labour, invisible labour, and representational labour. For this issue, we invited scholars to consider women’s writing in relation to labour, defined as the “expenditure of physical or mental effort especially when ...
