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The International Library of Sociology

BRITAINS MARRIED
WOMEN WORKERS

Founded by KARL MANNHEIM

The International Library of Sociology

THE SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER AND THE FAMILY
In 15 Volumes

I	Adopted Children	McWhinnie
II	Britains Married Women Workers	Klein
III	Families and their Relatives	Firth and Firth
IV	The Family and Democratic Society	Folsom
(The above title is not available through Routledge in North America)
V	The Family and Social Change	Rosser and Harris
VI	The Family Herds	Gulliver
VII	Family: Socialization and Interaction Process	Parsons and Bales
VIII	Foster Care: Theory and Practice	George
IX	From Generation to Generation	Eisenstadt
(The above title is not available through Routledge in North America)
X	The Golden Wing	Yueh-Hwa
(The above title is not available through Routledge in North America)
XI	In Place of Parents	Trasler
XII	In Retirement	Bracey
XIII	Middle Class Families	Bell
XIV	Nation and Family	Myrdal
(The above title is not available through Routledge in North America)
XV	Womens Two Roles	Myrdal and Klein

BRITAINS MARRIED WOMEN
WORKERS

by
VIOLA KLEIN

First published in 1965 by
Routledge

Reprinted 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002
by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Transferred to Digital Printing 2007

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

1965 Viola Klein

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

The publishers have made every effort to contact authors/copyright holders of the works reprinted in The International Library of Sociology. This has not been possible in every case, however, and we would welcome correspondence from those individuals/companies we have been unable to trace.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A CIP catalogue record for this book
is available from the British Library

Britains Married Women Workers
ISBN 0-415-17641-7
The Sociology of Gender and the Family: 15 Volumes
ISBN 0-415-17827-4
The International Library of Sociology: 274 Volumes
ISBN 0-415-17838-X

Publishers Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent

CONTENTS

TABLES

) Analysed by Size of Firms

) Analysed by Size of Firms

GRAPHS

I. Married Women Employees as Percentage of
all Married Women 19011951

III. Estimated Number of Women, by Age,
Employed in Great Britain End of May 1957

V. Annual Changes in the Number of Married and
Other Women in Employment, 19511963

VII. Full-Time and Part-Time Workers, by Age
Group

VIII. Employers of Women in Various Occupational
Grades

PREFACE

THE PROBLEM of Women and Work has for obvious reasons received a great deal of attention in recent years.

There is, on the one hand, the economic need of the country to make the fullest use of all its human resources. In particular, grave shortages of manpower exist in skilled occupations which have traditionally been the domain of women.

On the other hand, there is a widespread desire among married women of all classes to work outside their homesand an increasing number of them are doing sofor a variety of reasons which will be discussed in the following pages.

The employment of married women therefore is a social issue of some magnitude and urgency. Many of its aspects call for practical solutions and involve policy decisions. It is natural, therefore, that the problem has so far mostly been studied from a practical angle and under the pressure of immediate needs.

Certainly, the first step in the study of any social problem is the observation of relevant facts and the recording of data in statistical terms.

Beyond this, however, there are wider considerations which are disregarded only at the risk of failing to come to grips with the core of the problem. The most constructive practical solutions, too, may elude those who look at it from too close quarters.

There is an interdependence of social phenomena which is all too easily lost sight of in the pursuit of detailed investigations of one issue. Singleminded search for information on the topic in hand may be an essential preliminary to the understanding of a problem and its ramifications, but it would be an error to mistake intensity of concentration on a narrow front for a study in depth. For the latter a sociological perspective is needed which relates the problem under consideration with other social phenomena with which it may be causally connected.

In the course of my studies I have, for instance, become increasingly convinced of the connection between the widespread desire among women for gainful employment and the changed attitude of our society towards work and leisure.

Productive work, from being considered a necessary evil, has become a means of self-expression and a condition of personal fulfilment; hence it corresponds to a psychological need. It would lead too far in this context to analyse the reasons why this should be so. The fact, however, can hardly be denied. In a society which, in principle, has abolished the double standards between men and women it is increasingly difficult to confine this philosophy of life to one sex only.

Moreover, the changing leisure habits of the communityin addition to the growing amount of spare time availableare creating a climate of opinion in which a balance of activities in and outside the home appears to be a natural way of life for most people. Those who achieve an equilibrium between the two spheres drive in double harness. This is a far cry from the image of the harassed woman, burdened with the double load of domestic responsibilities and a job.

These ideological changes are not, of course, the whole explanation of the urge for gainful employment which can be observed among so many married women, but they are important contributory factors which it would be shortsighted to overlook.

Similarly, the most effective remedies for many of the troubles now obstructing the return to work of married women may come from social developments outside the sphere of female employment.

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