Sources for Paradigm Shift: Married Women in the Workforce

PBS: The First Measured Century: Working Women

I used this source for my original idea on the paradigm shift. This adds the focus of the amount of married women that entered the workforce. This source provides statistics and graphs detailing the quick change in the percentage of married women working outside their home. 

Brookings: The history of women’s work and wages and how it has created success for us all

This source provides the history of women’s work and wages. It gives context on what caused the paradigm shift and explains how the attitudes towards women in the workforce started to change. This source provides great context that breaks down my decades how women entered the workforce and why.

The Atlantic: Women in the Work Force

This article is very different. I’m not sure if I agree with it exactly. It gives several statistics that will prove useful. However, its thesis is that gender disparity in the workplace might have less to do with discrimination than with women making the choice to stay at home. I don’t really agree with this. I must read over this article more and really try to understand the point this article is trying to make. From my perspective, reading this article, gender disparity in the workplace caused by women choosing to stay home is because of pressure of traditional gender roles which is its own form of gender discrimination. This article was published in 1986. It is interesting and I’d like to look into it more. 

History.com: Why Many Married Women Were Banned From Working During the Great Depression

This article explores how women were banned from working during and after the great depression. This was directed mostly at married women. 

“Frances Perkins, New York state’s Commissioner of Labor, warned that New York faced a particular threat from a surprising group: Married women with jobs. “The woman ‘pin-money worker’ who competes with the necessity worker is a menace to society, a selfish, shortsighted creature, who ought to be ashamed of herself,” Perkins said.”