Women before WWI
Women before World War I owned very little property. Women usually didn’t have jobs as men did. Their main jobs were housewives which were to look after the house, kids, care for their husbands and housework such as cleaning, ironing and preparing meals. Basically women didn’t have many rights and had to do all the housework to keep them quiet.
Girls often didn’t get much education from schools because young girls were told to follow their mothers’ footsteps. Therefore, it wasn’t necessary to send them to schools.
Women worked as doctors, lawyers, preachers, teachers, writers and singers in the 18th century. However, by the early 19th century, women were limited to factory labour and domestic work. Women were only allowed to write and teach.
But still, to a woman, family was the most important thing in her entire life. Men would have a job to earn money for the family whilst the women stayed at home and looked after everything at home. Although women wanted to be treated as equally as men, their only professions were told to be motherhood and wifehood. “A woman’s place is in the home” (Jaz27, 2009). That’s how it worked.
Girls often didn’t get much education from schools because young girls were told to follow their mothers’ footsteps. Therefore, it wasn’t necessary to send them to schools.
Women worked as doctors, lawyers, preachers, teachers, writers and singers in the 18th century. However, by the early 19th century, women were limited to factory labour and domestic work. Women were only allowed to write and teach.
But still, to a woman, family was the most important thing in her entire life. Men would have a job to earn money for the family whilst the women stayed at home and looked after everything at home. Although women wanted to be treated as equally as men, their only professions were told to be motherhood and wifehood. “A woman’s place is in the home” (Jaz27, 2009). That’s how it worked.