1st Edition

Women and Work

By Ross Davies Copyright 1975
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Ross Davies