Women worked in areas that were formerly reserved for men, for example as railway guards and ticket collectors, buses and tram conductors, postal workers, police, firefighters and as bank ‘tellers’ and clerks. However, they received lower wages for doing the same work, and thus began some of the earliest demands for equal pay. As BBC states “Many women took paid jobs outside the home for the first time. The money they earned contributed to the family's budget and earning money made working women more independent.” (http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/26439020)
Compared to other jobs held by women of the time, they were paid well and as such, could be more independent and still be a respectable woman in society (McPherson,
Women were able to join the workforce since there was an increased need for workers while most men were out fighting in war. In a photograph in Washington in 1919 we can see women lined up with working attire as they work on the construction of a ship. (Doc. 3A) This is significant because we see that they are able to contribute and work, demonstrating a shift in what their roles were considered to be. The idea that women were meant to be nothing more than housewives were discarded after the increased need for workers.
Even though a lot of good came out of the Victorian Era, they were very disrespectful to women. Reading these make you understand what women had to go through and how far women have come since then. If you were considered ruined during the Victorian Era you were frowned upon very heavily. In some cultures, today it is still frowned upon, but fairly normal for our society. Today women have more of a voice then they did in the early 1800s.
Women have fought for ages in order to be able to gain the same rights and freedoms as men for years dating all the way back to the 1700s. Then, leading up to the 1800’s the Victorian era began when women were assigned their position in society of cleaning the house, taking care of the children, and keeping to themselves and the household running. This can be seen as a direct correlation between women and how they are portrayed in the book Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott. The women in this novella are seen as the lowest class of society and have little to no intelligence. They are meant to stay at home and keep things in order while the men go out and work and live in the flatland.
Women in the 1600s to the 1800s were very harshly treated. They were seen as objects rather than people. They were stay-at-home women because people didn’t trust them to hold jobs. They were seen as little or weak. Women living in this time period had to have their fathers choose their husbands.
Judith Butler’s Gender Troubles emphasizes gender as the constant repetition of non-existent ideals to uphold a masculine-dominant culture. Likewise, “Body Politics” highlights this belief within the overtly feminine qualities of city women. As a whole, the poem contrasts idealized feminine “city women” with a “real woman” who possesses both feminine and masculine qualities. The mother figure challenges both the gender binary and the patriarchal order by rejecting the feminine gender norms of the society. This feminist reading of the poem makes many valuable and probable claims, however the feminist approach contains some weaknesses.
There were high standards for women in society as well as in the home, as their main job was to be
The Victorian era witnessed the emergence of a shift in art, politics, science and social atti-tudes regarding gender relations. At this time women had to be docile. They were regarded as inno-cent and pure. Their purpose was to support their husbands. But at the end of the nineteenth centu-ry, the question of a new women’s role in society arose.
Furthermore, there were unequal wages between men and women. Even though women were able to work, they were not fully able to experience it because of the low pay they received. Often, this discouraged women from working or being ambitious about their future. Pankhurst questions, "How is it, the, that some of you have nothing but ridicule and contempt and [condemnation] for women who are fighting for exactly the same thing? In other words, men are sympathetic to women in other countries, but are not sympathetic to women in their own country.
For all of Victoria’s reign, she would put emphasis on motherhood and family (Veldman et al.), along with women’s rights and education reform (Bernard 7), which helped to shape the Victorian era and society in Britain
The Victorian Society was under the power of Queen Victoria of the British Empire. This era lasted over a long period of time. It had ended shortly after Queen Victoria’s death in 1901. Many women in this time period had more disadvantages than men. Women were seen as property instead of being a human being.
In the article, the author explains the suffering women experienced in the Victorian era where strict gender roles and expectations in the society governed how the women lived their lives in a family dynamic. During this time, society expected women to exercise their roles as “the ideal of the ‘true woman’ as wife, mother, and keeper of the home” while also remaining submissive to patriarchy ((()))). If the women maintained these qualities of “the true woman”, they would receive acceptance and respect in society. ((((())))))). However, living under fear of breaking these regulations in this strict patriarchal society often led the women to experience depression, powerlessness, and stress.
They found it difficult in finding jobs, because most of them were dominated by males. In all social classes, women were considered as weaker than men physically. Employers would prefer to
Women in Victorian England didn’t had the right to vote sue, or own property. Women in Victorian England had it unfair because the men could do stuff that females couldn’t do. Feminist ideas spread among the educated middle classes, discriminatory laws were repealed and the women’s suffrage movement gained momentum in the last years of the Victorian era. Victorian women’s lives and their role expected in society Victorian era identified four classes as a part and parcel of their social structure. But the only dust they Victorian women was to do was to keep their husband’s happy and to raise and take care of their children .The
