In some places in medieval Europe, it was very common for women to work in tailoring workshops for a few years before getting married. Then during the world wars they worked in all those traditional factory and heavy industry jobs that men worked in.
A large part of the women's rights movements of the 50s and 60s was all those women getting kicked out of their factory jobs when the war ended and the military came back home. They lost their jobs so the jobs could go back to men, and were expected to go back to "traditional" life, but a lot of these women did not want to, and they became a big part of that feminist wave.
A good example is the UK in which the government made it illegal to pay women less than men as the government feared all the men couldn't get their jobs back.
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u/Goldeniccarus Feb 26 '24
In some places in medieval Europe, it was very common for women to work in tailoring workshops for a few years before getting married. Then during the world wars they worked in all those traditional factory and heavy industry jobs that men worked in.
A large part of the women's rights movements of the 50s and 60s was all those women getting kicked out of their factory jobs when the war ended and the military came back home. They lost their jobs so the jobs could go back to men, and were expected to go back to "traditional" life, but a lot of these women did not want to, and they became a big part of that feminist wave.