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Women Workers in the Second World War - Production and Patriarchy in Conflict (Hardcover)
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Women Workers in the Second World War - Production and Patriarchy in Conflict (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
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The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation,
because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the
state took steps to relieve women of domestic work. This study
challenges such a picture. The state approached the removal of
women from the domestic sphere with extreme caution, in spite of
the desperate need for women's labour in war work. Women's own
preferences were frequently neglected or distorted in the search
for a compromise between production and patriarchy. However, the
enduring practices of paying women less and treating them as an
inferior category of workers led to growth in the numbers and
proportions of women employed after the war in many areas of work.
Penny Summerfield concludes that the war accelerated the
segregation of women in 'inferior' sectors of work, and inflated
the expectation that working women would bear the double burden
without a redistribution of responsibility for the domestic sphere
between men, women and the state. First published in 1984, this is
an important book for students of history, sociology and women's
studies at all levels.
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