Introduction It was no coincidence that women made up much of the workforce in the early factories and manufacturing industries. During those days to jump start an industry, the owner needed cheap labor. In the nineteenth / early twentieth century women had few alternatives for work, and thus took whatever pay and conditions that were offered in order to feed themselves and their families. Women also were sought as desirable employees because of age old beliefs that they, more than men, were nimble fingered, dexterous, careful, meticulous and quick. Accustomed to a world in which male authority ruled, employers counted on them to be compliant, docile workers. (Woloch, 1984) The history of women work As nation builders, women have for a long time distinguished themselves by the extra ordinary diversity of their contribution. Their duties from giving birth to the transfer of these young people to their duties in the factory indicates their perseverance and hardworking to a fruitful end. Apart from these duties of increasing the man power they themselves really toiled and worked. They were unpaid or ill paid, did dirty work, monotonous back breaking duties in the nations homes, farms and factories or industries. They transformed Canadian nation from rural, agricultural based society into an urban industrialized society. One of the most beneficiary industries was that of textile. Women transferred their time on spinning and weaving skills from the hearth to the industries and factories. (Woloch, 1984) For example in Quebec the cotton industry developed a lot because of cheap labor from women. To see these more clearly we are going to look at a case study of Quebec. In the period of 20 th century there was change and women had a lot of better job opportunities compared to before. The systematic events that led to the statehood gave way to an official demise to the practice of polygamy. This led to the approval for the state to change its constitution. The constitution then restored the rights of women to vote and also guaranteed other equal rights that were usually neglected. This brought about gender equality. The most important laws that were passed between the periods 1930 had to set the maximum hours and the almost minimum wages for women who were working in average kind of conditions. During these period technology dramatically changed women’s lives mostly in the urban areas. There was the revolutionizing of homemaking with the introduction of indoor plumbing, electric service, central heating and the small power motor. (Richard, 1988) There was the growth of commercial laundries and the expansion of factory production industries such as that of clothing, processed foods, and other household items that relieved women of many tasks and created thousands of job opportunities for them outside their place of residence. This resulted to the fast growth of manufacturing, banking, retail and wholesale trade during this period of twentieth century. The success of many of these ventures depended on women. Many women found employment in offices, communications, retail stores and hotels in fast-growing cities and towns throughout the Quebec, Montreal and other towns. From the beginning women had predominated as telephone operators but because of their gender,