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The women's movement and women's employment in nineteenth century Britain
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ISBN: 9780415189514 0415189519 0415510503 9786610336852 020302110X 113465748X 1280336854 0203159276 9780203159279 9780203021101 0203173384 9780203173381 9781280336850 6610336857 9781134657438 9781134657476 9781134657483 9780415510509 1134657471 Year: 1999 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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In the first half of the nineteenth century the main employments open to young women in Britain were in teaching, dressmaking, textile manufacture and domestic service. After 1850, however, young women began to enter previously all-male areas like medicine, pharmacy, librarianship, the civil service, clerical work and hairdressing, or areas previously restricted to older women like nursing, retail work and primary school teaching. This book examines the reasons for this change. The author argues that the way femininity was defined in the first half of the century blinded employers in the


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Les féministes belges... et les luttes pour l'égalité politique et économique, 1914-1968
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ISSN: 03787893 ISBN: 9782803103423 2803103427 Year: 2013 Volume: 3 Publisher: Bruxelles : Académie royale de Belgique,

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Alors que l'histoire des femmes est relativement bien implantée en Belgique, il n'existe encore aucune étude qui envisage l'ensemble des mouvements féministes dans leur rapport à la société civile et politique. Cet ouvrage tente modestemment de combler cette lacune.

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History of Belgium and Luxembourg --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1920-1929 --- Feminism --- Equality --- Féminisme --- Inégalités sociales --- Women --- Political aspects --- Employment --- BE / Belgium - België - Belgique --- 331.100 --- 331.20 --- 311.95 --- 332.71 --- 305.409493 --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Sociale geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Bevolking naar het geslacht. --- Vrouwen- en jongerenarbeid. --- Social sciences Women Belgium --- --Féministe --- --XXe s., --- Belgique --- --Political aspects --- Femmes --- Égalité des sexes --- Droits civils et politiques --- Travail --- Féminisme --- Inégalités sociales --- anno 1900-1999 --- Belgium --- History --- 20th century --- Political rights --- Femmes. --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Sociale geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Bevolking naar het geslacht --- Vrouwen- en jongerenarbeid --- Feminism. --- Feminisme. --- Feminismus. --- Political aspects. --- Employment. --- Belgien. --- Belgium. --- België. --- Feminism - Belgium --- Feminism - Political aspects --- Women - Employment - Belgium --- Féministe --- XXe s., 1901-2000 --- Equal opportunities --- Pay gap --- Labour --- Politicians --- Politics --- Political participation --- Social security --- Women's movements --- Women's suffrage --- Women's organizations --- Professions --- Book --- Discrimination --- Égalité des sexes

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