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Content: Women and children therefore had to go to work. By 1900, 1.7 million children
were working. On average , children worked 60 hours per week and took home pay 
that was a third the size of adult males. Only 5% of married women held jobs outside the home in 1900. Many women involved in the garment industry worked in their homes, cutting and 
sewing garments. ( sweat shops) Married black women were four times more likely to work outside of the home (as
domestics, etc.). Industrialization  pushed
women  into industries considered an
extension of housework: food processing, textiles, clothing, cigar making, and
domestic service. White collar women: typists, bookkeepers, and
secretaries.