employment and education

• how many unmarried women were working in factories in 1870?


  15%
• how many women were in the workforce by 1900?


  17%
• how many women were in the workforce by 1910?


  21%
• how did WW1 impact women's employment?


  it gave them more opportunities due to the gap left by the men who had gone to fight.
• how many women were working in white collar clerical jobs by 1920?


  more than 3.4 million
• how did the 1935 economy act negatively impact women?

  it prohibited the federal government from hiring members of the same family - meant women lost their jobs
• when was the G.I bill passed?

  1944 - established the right of ex-servicemen to access higher education and provided funding - affected the admissions of women
• what did the 1964 equal employment opportunities commission do?

  prohibited discrimination in employment on basis of sex
• what did the 1978 pregnancy discrimination act do?


  prohibited sex discrimination on basis of pregnancy
• what was the 1971 reed v reed about?


  ruled that administrators of estates cannot be named in a way which discriminates between sexes
• how many engineers were women in 1992?


  8%
• what was the gender pay gap like at the end of the period?

  women were still paid 32% less than men on average