History A-Level
Women’s employment patterns
What Women’s employment patterns means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Women’s employment patterns
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
In 1882 most paid work was low-paid, often domestic service, textiles or sweated trades, with marriage commonly ending employment, shifting towards office, factory, professional and service employment by 2004.
Topics that use Women’s employment patterns
- Paper 3, Option 39.2: Mass media and social change in Britain, 1882–2004 - 1 Changing patterns of women’s lives within the family and in the world of work (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Changing gender roles and workplace participation
- Economic independence and taxation
- Equal pay legislation
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- Trade unionism and direct action
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- Legal rights and property ownership
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