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A Woman's Place is at Work: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor in Five Texas Cities, 1900-1940

by Codee Scott

Institution:	University of North Texas
Year:	2017
Keywords:	Women's Paid Labor; Texas Women; Employment; Paid Labor; History, United States
Posted:	02/01/2018
Record ID:	2170210
Full text PDF:	https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011821/

Abstract

This thesis is a quantitative analysis of women working for pay aged sixteen and older in five mid-size Texas cities from 1900 to 1940. It examines wage-earning women primarily in terms of race, age, marital status, and occupation at each census year and how those key factors changed over time. This study investigates what, if any, trends occurred in the types of occupations open to women and the roles of race, age, and marital status in women working for pay in the first forty years of the 20th century.Advisors/Committee Members: Campbell, Randolph B., Pomerleau, Clark A., Torget, Andrew J..