To What Extent Did The Industrial Revolution Provide More Economic Opportunities For Women In The 1830's
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Did the Industrial Revolution Provide More Economic Opportunities for Women in the 1830's?
The Industrial Revolution was a time of new technological advances and economic opportunity, but factory owners and men were the most benefited from this era. Women in the other hand were still being discriminated as less than men and were forced to stay home, take care of the children and do the housework. Although some women did have jobs in factories they were paid much less than men, worked long hours and were treated badly. If the women got injured on the job or made a mistake they were instantly fired. In factories women were easily replaceable with immigrants who were willing to work for even less money, and even if women managed to stay in their jobs, factory owners were unfair and cheated their workers out of their pay. During this time working women were seen as less than slaves because slaves had actual value to their owners while women were worthless to factory owners. So, because of these reasons I think the Industrial Revolution in Europe and all over the world did not provide economic opportunities for women in the 1830's, they were better off working in farms, teaching,…show more content… While, as wives, they had benefited from increasing wealth, urbanization, and industrialization, their role as economic producers and as political members of society differed sharply from that of men. Women were strictly tried to textile mills, where their small hands were preferred by factory owners to run the machinery; but, this also mean women lost their hands and fingers frequently on the job. Men though, worked doing all of the harder but better paying jobs like in iron mills and mining. In a sense the only ones who really benefited from the Industrial Revolution were the factory owners, they made so much money from the incredibly hard labor of men and women, and treated them like they were