Women's work culture in Europe and U.S

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From time immemorial, women have been a part of the world's work force in various spheres. She has faced turbulent times during which the status and rights of women's progress were challenged not only with regard to the rights of workers but also their right to work.
Contrary to popular belief, women's work is not of recent origin and its development has not been linear. Her story highlights the alternation of good times and the differentiation from the opposite sex as well.

Introduction
Difficult working conditions along with miserable wages
1. The evidence of female activity
2. The conditions under which women were called upon to perform tasks of tough nature
3. The situation in Europe
A diversity of women working for various reasons in various sectors
The rights of workers
1. The first claims of rights
2. The unions
3. The important issues
Conclusion

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[...] The situation was similar in Europe or the United States; although one can observe some differences between countries, eg the salary of a German in the late 19th century in the textile industry was ten times lower than that of English or French working up to 14 hours. Not only were these salaries meager but they were accompanied by a fierce male competition and the only way out was for women to accept ever lower wages than men for equal work. [...]

[...] Moreover, with regard to the areas of women's work, we see that between the years of 1850 and 1900, the distribution of women in the workplace was on the rise among the working class and especially the textile industry. Additionally, there was a divide between married and unmarried women. It was more difficult for married women to find employment than single women because of her family life and generally married women were employed in less industrialized areas of the plant, in areas where the place of the profession and the home were similar. [...]

[...] Again, the focus was more on women from the bourgeoisie or single women and but the wages paid were still lower in comparison to men although they proved to be good competition in many areas (in plant or offices). However, their work was still regarded as inferior by the codes of social and cultural representation that were attached to women. The rights of workers According to these codes of representation, there was the phenomenon of the "problem of the worker": factory work was widely regarded as a violation of the nature of woman when she entered motherhood. [...]

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