Women's Work: A Century of
Maine Experience
Women's Work |
Women Working for Wages |
Women Owning Businesses |
Women Working with their Husbands
Women
Owned Businesses
Women have been midwives,
healers, dowsers, photographers and writers. Some have
started businesses for which they hired other laborers such as
knitters and dressmakers. Some women took in ironing, washing, or
boarders. Women have owned and managed restaurants throughout the
twentieth century.
Additional reading:
Dexter, Elisabeth Williams Anthony,
Colonial Women of Affairs: Women in Business and the Professions in
America before 1776, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931).
Bird, Caroline, Enterprising Women, (New York: Norton, 1976)
Stage, Sarah, Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the business of
women's medicine, (New York: Norton, 1979).
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