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1. The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain

   By Ellen Jordan

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   In the first half of the nineteenth century the main employments open to young women in Britain were in teaching, dressmaking, textile manufacture and domestic service. After 1850, however, young women began to enter previously all-male areas like medicine, pharmacy, librarianship, the civil...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge