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Throughout history women have struggled against race, social class, education, financial status and societal definitions that have altered the scale of equality in the home and the work force. Ironically it is these same issues and other social and cultural variables that continued to divide us from one another.
In pre-industrial times, the United States was an agricultural society and the home was the center of production for all of the families needs. White Women did spinning and weaving making lace, soap candles and shoes and could be found doing jobs that consisted of hard physical labor such as farming, pitching hay, tending the livestock, hunting and trapping. Single women worked in the domestic trade also as assistant homemakers. If the husband owned a shop or were fortunate enough to be married to a prominent businessman, land or store owner, your life may consisted of supervising slaves or servants, managing the plantation or farm, as well as managing a family. Women......

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