Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“The glorious world of work stumbles at various obstacles: pregnancy, age, lack of education, desperation (particularly of migrant and illegal workers, the nannies and…

— Nina Power

“As a result, ostensibly liberated women often found themselves struggling with three full-time jobs: working inside the home, working outside the home, and trying…

— Debora L. Spar

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two…

— Florence Kelley

“I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other, more career-minded women have the right…

— Lin Pardey

“Of course, women have always worked, that is to say, raised children, tended to the home, grown crops, etc., and how different the history…

— Nina Power

“The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is…

— Karl Marx

. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.

— Clara Zetkin

“But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often…

— Colleen McCullough

The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men…

— Rheta Childe Dorr

“The zeal with which Victorian reformers worked to ‘protect’ women from such jobs as mining was more a concern for the effect of sexual…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“But somehow things took a sinister turn, and the division of labor came to be understood as the demarcation of a social hierarchy. Women…

— Julie Zeilinger

“Women the world over suffer restrictions.”

— Sara Sheridan