Women In The Workforce
Women in the workforce for most of written history agriculture was the chief human occupation and heavy physical labour was not confined to men.

Women in the workforce. Many consider the turning point in womens employment history to be the first world war when women entered the workforce to replace enlisted men. The civilian workforce participation. Convert that to percentages and we find that women made up 3797 percent of the labor force in 1970 compared to 4721 percent between 2006 and 2010. This wasnt the same wave of employment experienced in ww2 but it was enough to alter the working dynamic going forward even if women were encouraged and in some cases legislated to return to their place in the kitchen at the end of the war.
This era gave birth to the independent female worker from 1890 to 1930 women in the workforce were typically young and unmarried. Women performed physically demanding chores such as grinding grain by hand in a stone quern drawing and carrying water gathering wood and churning milk to make butter. The first phase encompasses the time between the late 19th century to the 1930s. They had little or no learning on the job and typically held clerical and teaching positions.
Over the second half of the 20th century women became far more involved in the workforce than ever before.
























































































