In Subordination: Professional Women, 1870-1970
ISBN: 9780773565234
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Women in the professions -- Canada -- History; Sex discrimination in employment -- Canada -- History;

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 historical study, Mary Kinnear explores the experience of the first generations of professional women in Canada.


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