Question

explain the position of women in Britain in the 19th century.

Chapter - The Age of Industrialisation.
Class 10 CBSE

Answer according to NCERT book

Answer 1

Position of women in Britain at the end of 18th century and early 19th century. Life in the industrial city began to change and transform

 

(i) Ties between members of household weakened. Women of the upper and middle class faced the problem of isolation although their lives were made easy by domestic servants who worked for them.

 

(ii) Women from the lower social classes had some control over their lives. They worked for wages. In

some cases women were pushed backhome in order to prevent the break up of families.

 

(iii) Public space was mainly a male preserve, It was a shocking in equality. After the charist movement women came to participate in political movement for suffrage and the right to vote

Answer 2

Factories employed large numbers of women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With technological developments, women gradually lost their industrial jobs, and were forced to work within households. The social workers believed that family as an institution was breaking down in London because the women were getting economic independence. The suggestion they made was to push the women back into domestic arena. A large number of women used their homes to increase family income by taking in lodgers or through such activities as tailoring, washing or matchbox making. However, there was a change once again in the twentieth century. As women got employment in wartime industries and offices, they withdrew from domestic service.