Title: The Jobs of Women During the 1900s | Career Trend
Headings: The Jobs of Women During the 1900s
The Jobs of Women During the 1900s
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Dressmakers
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The Jobs of Women During the 1900s
Erin Schreiner
Updated August 23, 2019
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While women today can aspire to nearly any profession, this was not always the case. In the early 1900s, women were able to select from only a limited number of occupations. During this period, women were generally charged with holding down the homestead and caring for numerous children born due to lack of birth control, leaving them little time for employment outside the home. Midwives
Many women put their child-birthing skills to work as midwives during the 1900s. These women, many of whom did not have medical training, assisted other women in home childbirths. In some cases, these women received no pay for their service, and in others they were paid through the barter system. Teachers
Teaching was one of the first fields open to women who wanted to work. Many unmarried women worked as teachers during the 1900s. Often, upon getting married, these women would leave the profession and act as full-time wives and mothers. 00:00
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Dressmakers
Those skilled with a needle could add to their household income by working as a dressmaker in the 1900s.