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Gender Ideology in Historical Reconstruction: A Case Study from the 1930s
Author(s) -
KESSLERHARRIS ALICE
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
gender and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-0424
pISSN - 0953-5233
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0424.1989.tb00233.x
Subject(s) - excuse , salary , wife , ideology , work (physics) , sociology , demographic economics , gender studies , labour economics , law , political science , economics , politics , engineering , mechanical engineering
You are probably aware of the fact that homes are being wrecked daily due to the fact that married women are permitted to work in factories and offices in this land of ours. You and we all know that the place for a wife and mother is at home, her palace. The excuse is often brought up that the husband cannot find employment. It is the writers’ belief that if the women were expelled from places of business,…these very men would find employment. These same womens’ husbands would naturally be paid a higher salary, inasmuch as male employees demand a higher salary than females. 1