 | Female Economy: Women's Work in a Prairie Province, 1870-1970 Subjects: Women -- Employment -- Manitoba -- History; Women -- Manitoba -- Social condition; Sexual division of labor -- Manitoba -- History; A Female Economy analyses a hundred years of women's work in Manitoba from the province's entry into Confederation in 1870 to the publication of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1970. Mary Kinnear shows that, whether women were working in the household or on a farm for no direct monetary reward or working for wages in the industrial, service, and professional sectors, their work was undervalued. |
