The Changing Role Of Women

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The Changing Role Of Women

The role of women has changed in the last 100 years. However women

have yet to achieve full equality with men.

The role of women has changed in several ways.

In the last century, only men went out to work. Women were expected to

stay at home and take care of the household and the domestic side of

things. This included the cooking, cleaning, laundry, ironing etc.

However, the improvement in technology has meant that the household

jobs have been made much easier and timesaving. These labour saving

devices include freezers, washing machines, microwave cookers, food

processors, vacuum cleaners and manufactured food such as canned,

tinned and frozen food as well as "instant meals" where no cooking or

hassles is needed. These improvements have reduced the time spent on

housework, releasing women so that they can go out to work in paid

employment.

Nonetheless, women have yet to gain equality with men in employment.

This includes the pay. Below are the ten worst paid jobs in Britain.

1. Kitchen porter

2. Waitress

3.

…And they're all nearly done by women!

Catering assistant

4. Laundry worker

5. Supermarket shelf-filler

6. Cleaner/Domestic

7. Bar Staff

8. Child Carer

9. Retail check-out operator

10. Hair dresser

Although the equal Pay Act gives equal pay to women if they do the

same or similar work as men, it is revealed above that women often do

not do the same work as men which as a result means that they have no

one to claim equal pay with. It is a sad fact that in 1997, women made

up about 2/3 of all low-paid workers.

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improving position of women. This had reduced the time spent in child

rearing and given women better opportunities to enter paid employment.

Today, once a woman had had children, due to the increase in life

expectancy, she has a long life stretching ahead to pursue a career.

100 years ago once a woman has had children that would have been the

end of her ambitions and social life. Still, women today spend more

time with the children than their fathers. This inequality over the

time spent with the children in the home is gradually balancing,

although compulsory schooling since 1880 and particularly since 1994

has reduced the time necessary for the care and supervision of

children in the family. This has given women with children a greater

opportunity to go out to work then earlier in the twentieth century.

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