ext_3640 ([identity profile] gaudior.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] mishalak 2004-01-28 04:32 pm (UTC)

Re: On Industry

Yeah, good point, you're right. And in the working-class world, women worked all through the 50s and afterwards-- in families where they need every penny to stay afloat, women have always worked, like everyone else. But I believe that women were traditionally paid less, on the theory that their work wasn't what was supporting the family? And there's that whole difference in class-- working-class people work to survive, middle-class people work because that's how they get status and authority. And so middle-class women had to struggle to be allowed to work, where working-class women never had the choice not to. Neh?

--R

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