In subordination : professional women, 1870-1970

The Resource In subordination : professional women, 1870-1970

Label

In subordination : professional women, 1870-1970

Title remainder

professional women, 1870-1970

Statement of responsibility

Mary Kinnear

Language

eng

Summary

"From 1870 to 1970 between ten and twenty per cent of women in paid work held jobs described by the Canadian census as "professional." In this important study Mary Kinnear examines the experience of the first generations of professional women in Canada." "Kinnear presents case studies of women in five professions - university teachers, physicians, lawyers, nurses, and schoolteachers - in Manitoba. She shows that all five professions had three characteristics in common: unequal pay, lack of control by women, and the belief that marriage and the professions were not compatible. Most women, whether in male- or female-dominated professions, were forced to accept subordinate positions, to which they responded with acquiescence, indifference, resentment, or resistance. Kinnear considers the reasons for and the cost of these various strategies." "In addition to quantitative data from census and other records, Kinnear has collected the testimony of more than two hundred professional women. A significant contribution to the growing literature on women and the professions, In Subordination helps explain why professional women continue to fight for equality today."--Jacket

Cataloging source

SFB

Dewey number

331.4/133/0971

Index

index present

LC call number

HD6054.2

LC item number

.K55 1995eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

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