re: #135 Flavia

Which is where we first got the stereotype that we’re “pushy”. When Jews started coming to America in the late 19th century, the ethic in America was that “Ladies didn’t work. Ladies were demure. Ladies were subservient to their husbands.” Well, Jewish women were self-sufficient, or even the bread-winners for the family, because it was considered an honor, an accomplishment, if you could earn enough so that your husband could fulfill his duty of studying Torah. & you couldn’t become a businesswoman without going out into the world & marketing your skills. This is why feminists decry the label of “lady” because they point out that it’s used in ways to limit a woman’s behavior.

(& now we know what advance degree I have!)

I would like to have you source this please. Because what you wrote was not based on fact but on “truthiness”.

Women (men and children, too) were working in Scottish factories and factories all over Great Britain way before the great wave of Eastern European migrations to America and were doing so a 100 years before that (you know because industrialization was a British invention and they exploited women and children much earlier than in America).

Here is a source:

Women have always worked. The Industrial Revolution did not usher in a new phase in the employment of women in that sense.

www2.stetson.edu