What jobs were offered to women in the late 1800s - early 1900s?

Question

for a 16 yr old girl maybe?

Answer 1

During the whole of the nineteenth century, women had no political rights though there had been some movement in other areas to advance the rights of women. This view was supported by Queen Victoria - she hardly did anything to advance the cause of women. In 1870, Queen Victoria had written "let women be what God intended, a helpmate for man, but with totally different duties and vocations

Here is something I found-
A table of employment gives where women worked in 1900 :

Type of employment Number of women employed
Domestic Servants 1,740,800
Teachers 124,000
Nurses 68,000
Doctors 212
Architects 2

Answer 2

Women In The Late 1800s

Answer 3

To women of what social class?

Working class women did laundry, sewing, etc. (another poster suggested textiles, but that didn't happen until well into the 20th centiry; before 1900, most textile workers were men). Some worked as domestic help in wealthier households.

Middle-class women and women from impoverished noble families worked as secretaries, typists, governesses of wealthy households, telephone operators (early telephone companies hired women with pleasant manner, who had to meet the minimum requirements to height and arm span to be able to operate a standard-size switchboard), and, increasingly, teachers (both in the formal school system and in homeschooling of wealthy families' offspring). A few were "companions" (in 19th century, a wealthy widow or spinster would often invite another woman to live in her home rent-free and share her meals to keep her company in exchange for some household management duties).

Answer 4

1. Babymaker
2. Homemaker
3. Lower Level school teacher
4. Cook
5. Typist/Secretary
6. Babysitter
7. working at knitting clothes
8. Making peach cobbler

Answer 5

family farm
teachers
nurses
domestic service
textile and garment factories

1930's during WWII
jobs were scarce most worked as riveters and ship/plane builders

Answer 6

1.Teacher 2.homemaker 3.clothes makers 4.Prostitutes{truth} 5.madams of manors/INNs

Answer 7

Textile jobs, maids/servants, prostitution. Is this specifically in the US?

Answer 8

Ladies of the night, factory workers <----in very horrible environments, long hours, and horrible pay!! also, maybe a house maid or nanny.......

Answer 9

Baby makers and maids.

Answer 10

teachers, wet nurses, house keepers, maids, nannies, ladies' companions