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Download or read book Women's Work written by Megan K. Stack and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 From National Book Award finalist Megan K. Stack, a stunning memoir of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and work from home writing a book. She quickly realized that caring for a baby and keeping up with the housework while her husband went to the office each day was consuming the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and large corporations: she availed herself of cheap Chinese labor. The housekeeper Stack hired was a migrant from the countryside, a mother who had left her daughter in a precarious situation to earn desperately needed cash in the capital. As Stack's family grew and her husband's job took them to Dehli, a series of Chinese and Indian women cooked, cleaned, and babysat in her home. Stack grew increasingly aware of the brutal realities of their lives: domestic abuse, alcoholism, unplanned pregnancies. Hiring poor women had given her the ability to work while raising her children, but what ethical compromise had she made? Determined to confront the truth, Stack traveled to her employees' homes, met their parents and children, and turned a journalistic eye on the tradeoffs they'd been forced to make as working mothers seeking upward mobility—and on the cost to the children who were left behind. Women's Work is an unforgettable story of four women as well as an electrifying meditation on the evasions of marriage, motherhood, feminism, and privilege.
Download or read book Double Lives written by Helen McCarthy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021 'Fabulous' - The Times 'A milestone in women's history' - Observer 'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating read' - Herald In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, working mothers were in the minority, excluded altogether from many occupations, whilst their wage-earning was widely perceived as a social ill. In Double Lives, Helen McCarthy accounts for this remarkable transformation and the momentous consequences it has had for Britain. Recovering the everyday worlds of working mothers, this groundbreaking history forces us not only to re-evaluate the past, but to ask anew how current attitudes towards mothers in the workplace have developed and how far we have to go. 'Impressive and nuanced' - Guardian 'Brilliant' - Literary Review
Download or read book A Woman's Work written by Harriet Harman and published by Allen Lane. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Harriet Harman started her career, men-only job adverts and a 'women's rate' of pay were the norm. Female MPs were a tiny minority and a woman couldn't even sign for a mortgage. In A Woman's Work Harriet, Britain's longest-serving female MP looks at her own life to see how far we've come and where we should go next. This is a refreshingly honest account of the part she played in the movement that transformed politics and women's lives."--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Workhouses and Pauperism and Women's Work in the Administration of the Poor Law by : Louisa Twining
Download or read book Workhouses and Pauperism and Women's Work in the Administration of the Poor Law written by Louisa Twining and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Woman's Work and Woman's Culture by : Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler
Download or read book Woman's Work and Woman's Culture written by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Workhouses and women's work by : L. Twining
Download or read book Workhouses and women's work written by L. Twining and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1858 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workhouses and women's work reprinted from the Church of England Monthly Review : also, a paper on the condition of workhouses, read in the social economy department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at Birmingham, October, 1857.
Book Synopsis My Revision Notes Edexcel AS History: Britain, c.1860-1930: The Changing Position of Women by : Robin Bunce
Download or read book My Revision Notes Edexcel AS History: Britain, c.1860-1930: The Changing Position of Women written by Robin Bunce and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by senior examiners and experienced teachers, this student revision workbook for Edexcel AS History Unit 2: The Changing Position of Women closely combines course content with revision activities and advice on exam technique. This allows students the opportunity to improve the skills needed to perform well in exam conditions through interacting with the content they need to revise. In addition each section has a model answer with exam tips for students to analyse and better understand what is required in the exam.
Book Synopsis Workhouses and women's work. Also, A paper on the condition of workhouses [by L. Twining]. by : Workhouses
Download or read book Workhouses and women's work. Also, A paper on the condition of workhouses [by L. Twining]. written by Workhouses and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions by : Janet Horowitz Murray
Download or read book The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions written by Janet Horowitz Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women. The ideal of the magazine was the idea of the emerging emancipated middle-class woman: economic independence from men, choice of occupation, participation in the male enterprises of commerce and government, access to higher education, admittance to the male professions, particularly medicine, and, of course, the power of suffrage equal to that of men. First published in 1979, this nineteenth volume contains issues from 1886. With an informative introduction by Janet Horowitz Murray and Myra Stark, and an index compiled by Anna Clark, this set is an invaluable resource to those studying nineteenth and early twentieth-century feminism and the women’s movement in Britain.
Download or read book Hand to Mouth written by Linda Tirado and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real-life Nickel and Dimed—the author of the wildly popular “Poverty Thoughts” essay tells what it’s like to be working poor in America. ONE OF THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Esquire “DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND FUNNY. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. TIRADO IS THE REAL THING.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, from the Foreword As the haves and have-nots grow more separate and unequal in America, the working poor don’t get heard from much. Now they have a voice—and it’s forthright, funny, and just a little bit furious. Here, Linda Tirado tells what it’s like, day after day, to work, eat, shop, raise kids, and keep a roof over your head without enough money. She also answers questions often asked about those who live on or near minimum wage: Why don’t they get better jobs? Why don’t they make better choices? Why do they smoke cigarettes and have ugly lawns? Why don’t they borrow from their parents? Enlightening and entertaining, Hand to Mouth opens up a new and much-needed dialogue between the people who just don’t have it and the people who just don’t get it.
Book Synopsis Workhouses and Women's Work. Reprinted from the Church of England Monthly Review. Also a Paper on the condition of Workhouses [by Miss L. Twining]. by :
Download or read book Workhouses and Women's Work. Reprinted from the Church of England Monthly Review. Also a Paper on the condition of Workhouses [by Miss L. Twining]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Historical Dictionary of British Women by : Cathy Hartley
Download or read book A Historical Dictionary of British Women written by Cathy Hartley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book, containing the biographies of more than 1,100 notable British women from Boudicca to Barbara Castle, is an absorbing record of female achievement spanning some 2,000 years of British life. Most of the lives included are those of women whose work took them in some way before the public and who therefore played a direct and important role in broadening the horizons of women. Also included are women who influenced events in a more indirect way: the wives of kings and politicians, mistresses, ladies in waiting and society hostesses. Originally published as The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women, this newly re-worked edition includes key figures who have died in the last 20 years, such as The Queen Mother, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, Elizabeth Jennings and Christina Foyle.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism by : Sarah Gamble
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism written by Sarah Gamble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approachable for general readers as well as for students in women's studies related courses at all levels, this invaluable guide follows the unique Companion format in combining over a dozen in-depth background chapters with more than 400 A-Z dictionary entries. The background chapters are written by major figures in the field of feminist studies, and include thorough coverage of the history of feminism, as well as extensive discussions of topics such as Postfeminism, Men in Feminism, Feminism and New Technologies and Feminism and Philosophy. The dictionary entries cover the major individuals and issues essential to an understanding both of feminism's roots and of the trends that are shaping its future. Readers will find entries on people such as Aphra Behn, Simone de Beauvoir, Princess Diana, Courtney Love and Robert Bly, and on subjects such as Afro-American feminism, cosmetic surgery, the 'new man', prostitution, reproductive technologies and 'slasher' films.
Book Synopsis Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914 by : David Englander
Download or read book Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914 written by David Englander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated attitudes to welfare provision for the next 80 years. This new Seminar Study explores the changing ideas to poverty over this period and assesses current debates on Victorian attitudes to the poor. David Englander reviews the old system of poor relief; he considers how the New Poor Law was enacted and received and looks at how it worked in practice. The chapter on the Scottish experience will be particularly welcomed, as will Dr Englander's discussion of the place of the Poor Law within British history.
Book Synopsis Women's Work in United States of America by : MEENACHISUNDARAM.M
Download or read book Women's Work in United States of America written by MEENACHISUNDARAM.M and published by MS SOFTWARE LABORATORIES. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title: Woman's work in United States of America Edited/Added and Translated By: M. MeenachiSundaram TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE.. 5 Chapter I: INTRODUCTION. 16 Chapter II: THE EDUCATION OF WOMAN IN THE EASTERN STATES. 24 EVELYN COLLEGE. 88 COLUMBIA COLLEGE IN RELATION TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN. 89 BARNARD COLLEGE. 93 VASSAR COLLEGE. 94 SMITH COLLEGE. 95 WELLESLEY COLLEGE. 97 CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 98 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY. 100 BRYN MAWR COLLEGE. 101 SWARTHMORE COLLEGE. 103 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 103 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. 107 Chapter III: THE EDUCATION OF WOMAN IN THE WESTERN STATES. 110 CO-EDUCATION IN THE WEST. 127 OPENING WEDGES. 138 GENERAL ARGUMENT. 148 THE SOCIAL EFFECTS AND TENDENCIES OF CO-EDUCATION. 155 DEFECTS AND LIMITATIONS IN THE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR WOMEN IN THE WEST. 158 Chapter IV: THE EDUCATION OF WOMAN IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. 167 COLLEGIATE EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN THE SOUTH. 174 THE SEMI-COLLEGES. 184 THE OTHER FEMALE COLLEGES. 186 SECONDARY INSTRUCTION. 190 NORMAL SCHOOLS AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. 192 CONCLUSION. 195 Chapter V: WOMAN IN LITERATURE. 197 Chapter VI: WOMAN IN JOURNALISM. 230 Chapter VII: WOMAN IN MEDICINE. 248 Chapter VIII: WOMAN IN THE MINISTRY. 344 Chapter IX: WOMAN IN LAW. 362 Chapter X: WOMAN IN THE STATE. 406 Chapter XI: WOMAN IN INDUSTRY. 457 Chapter XII: CHARITY. 533 Chapter XIII: CARE OF THE SICK. HOSPITALS AND TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR NURSES MANAGED WHOLLY OR IN PART BY WOMEN. 572 Chapter XIV: CARE OF THE CRIMINAL. 593 SPREAD OF WORK. 594 NEW YORK PRISON ASSOCIATION. 595 PERSONAL WORK. 597 REFORMATORY PRISONS FOR WOMEN. 600 WOMEN ON STATE BOARDS. 603 DEPARTMENT OF PRISON, JAIL, AND POLICE WORK OF THE NATIONAL WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 604 POLICE MATRONS. 607 PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. 613 Chapter XV: CARE OF THE INDIAN. 615 Chaptet XVI: WORK OF ANTI-SLAVERY WOMEN. 638 Chapter XVII: WORK OF THE W. C. T. U. 649 Chapter XVIII: THE ORIGIN AND APPLICATION OF THE RED CROSS. 669 APPENDICES. 685 APPENDIX A. 685 APPENDIX B.—Table I. 687 APPENDIX B.—Table II. 690 APPENDIX C.—Table I. 708 APPENDIX C.—Table II. 713 APPENDIX C.—Table III. 715 APPENDIX D. 720 APPENDIX E. 734 THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF WOMEN. 734 INDEX.. 740 ABOUT THE AUTHOR.. 765 PREFACE 1. Historical Role of Women in the USA** Women in the United States have played a crucial role in shaping the nation’s history, from the earliest colonial settlements to the modern era. In the early years, women's roles were largely confined to the home, where they were expected to care for the family and manage household duties. However, women also contributed to the economy through agriculture, trade, and cottage industries. As the country grew, women became increasingly involved in reform movements, such as abolitionism and the fight for suffrage, laying the groundwork for future advancements in women's rights. 2. **The Suffrage Movement** One of the most significant milestones for women in the United States was the fight for the right to vote. The women's suffrage movement, which began in the mid-19th century, was led by pioneering figures like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth. After decades of activism, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1920, granting women the right to vote. This victory was a turning point in the struggle for gender equality, providing women with a powerful tool to influence politics and society. 3. **Women in the Workforce** Women in the United States have made significant strides in the workforce, particularly since the early 20th century. During World War II, women entered the workforce in large numbers to fill roles left vacant by men who were fighting overseas. The iconic image of "Rosie the Riveter" symbolized women’s contributions to the war effort and the changing perceptions of women’s capabilities. Today, women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and occupy positions in every sector, from business and technology to education and healthcare. However, the gender pay gap and underrepresentation in leadership roles remain ongoing challenges. 4. **Women in Politics** Women’s participation in American politics has grown significantly over the past century. Although the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, was elected in 1916, it took many years for women to gain a substantial presence in political offices. In recent years, there has been a historic increase in the number of women elected to Congress and state legislatures. Notably, Kamala Harris made history in 2021 by becoming the first female Vice President of the United States, as well as the first woman of African American and South Asian descent to hold the position.
Book Synopsis Work and Unemployment 1834-1911 by : Marjorie Levine-Clark
Download or read book Work and Unemployment 1834-1911 written by Marjorie Levine-Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the ideals and experiences of work during the long nineteenth century. The meanings attached to work had resonance in multiple aspects of people’s lives, and the sources consider this breadth. The primary sources examine the association of work with respectability, the challenges industrialization posed to men’s traditional labour and identities, and the pressures placed on working women by the increasingly normative domestic ideal. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this volume will be of great interest to students of British History.
Book Synopsis The Workhouse System 1834-1929 by : M. A. Crowther
Download or read book The Workhouse System 1834-1929 written by M. A. Crowther and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981. Professor Crowther traces the history of the workhouse system from the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the Local Government Act of 1929. At their outset the large residential institutions were seen by the Poor Law Commissioners as a cure for nearly all social ills. In fact these formidable, impersonal, prison-like buildings – housing all paupers under one roof – became institutionalised: places where routine came to be an end in itself. In the early twentieth century some of the workhouses became hospitals or homes for the old or handicapped but many continued to form a residual service for those who needed long-term care. Crowther pays attention not only to the administrators but also to the inmates and their daily life. She illustrates that the workhouse system was not simply a nineteenth-century phenomenon but a forerunner of many of today’s social institutions.
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