A female economy
Subtitle: women's work in a Prairie Province, 1870-1970
By: Mary Kinnear.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Women -- Employment -- Manitoba -- History.; Women -- Manitoba -- Social conditions.; Sexual division of labor -- Manitoba -- History.
Description: "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 women's work, whether unpaid in the household or on the farm or for wages in the industrial, service, and professional sectors, was undervalued." "While women's own views furnish the main theme, A Female Economy contributes to a developing debate in feminist economics. By focusing on women's experiences in the sexually segregated economy of a Canadian province at the geographic centre of Canada, Kinnear furnishes a paradigm for women's economic activity in most Western industrializing societies at the time."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([189]-210) and index.