9. Women’s Employment in 20th-Century France
Maruani, Margaret
9. Women’s Employment in 20th-Century France - 2013.
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How did women’s employment evolve in the 20th century? What is the number of women at work in France in the 20th century, and how telling are these figures? The authors of this article will try??”thanks to the existing statistics on women’s work, employment, and unemployment from 1901 to 2011??”to answer some obvious, but potentially embarrassing questions such as: do women work more in 2010 than they did back in 1950, 1920, or 1901? Can the discontinued careers of women be explained historically? How has the social division of labor between men and women evolved? The authors will try to understand how sociologically significant such statistical evolutions are, and how telling the changes in definitions over time and in the different population censuses are, in order to show how skepticism has often surrounded women’s involvement in the workplace: their work was often miscalculated, underrated, and sometimes recalculated to reflect the evolution of statistics evolved and the changes in perspective. The authors question the fact that women have all too often been thought inactive when figures clearly point out that their work has indisputably played a major role in the economy, and that they have never stopped working even in times of crises and recessions, long after the wars and the years immediately following had gone by. In the 20th century, women never accounted for less than one-third of the workforce in France and now account for close to half.
9. Women’s Employment in 20th-Century France - 2013.
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How did women’s employment evolve in the 20th century? What is the number of women at work in France in the 20th century, and how telling are these figures? The authors of this article will try??”thanks to the existing statistics on women’s work, employment, and unemployment from 1901 to 2011??”to answer some obvious, but potentially embarrassing questions such as: do women work more in 2010 than they did back in 1950, 1920, or 1901? Can the discontinued careers of women be explained historically? How has the social division of labor between men and women evolved? The authors will try to understand how sociologically significant such statistical evolutions are, and how telling the changes in definitions over time and in the different population censuses are, in order to show how skepticism has often surrounded women’s involvement in the workplace: their work was often miscalculated, underrated, and sometimes recalculated to reflect the evolution of statistics evolved and the changes in perspective. The authors question the fact that women have all too often been thought inactive when figures clearly point out that their work has indisputably played a major role in the economy, and that they have never stopped working even in times of crises and recessions, long after the wars and the years immediately following had gone by. In the 20th century, women never accounted for less than one-third of the workforce in France and now account for close to half.
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