"Women have always worked, constantly, continuously, always and everywhere, in every type of society in every part of the world since the beginning of human time."

Traditionally "a women's place was in the home" - the private sphere, while the man occupied the public sphere (office or factory). When the Industrial Revolution transformed the workplace in the 18th century, it also transformed the life of women as well. This paper will focus on how life for women changed drastically when, during the revolution, factories became the most common place to work.

With the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial society, women lost the flexibility and control of their work. Instead, they commanded low-grade, low-paying, exploited occupations. They had a double burden of having to go out into the workforce and take care of all domestic responsibilities, including the sole accountability of child rearing. Each of the changes in the Industrial Revolution proved to have a negative impact on women, in a devastating way that could have never have been predicted.

The first of these changes was the move from home to factory. Women had maintained a

Although women have obviously succeeded, at least in the United States, in obtaining the same rights as men (voting, etc.) we still do not typically command equal pay. Just as in the 18th century, women today still bear the double burden of going out into the workforce and taking care of most of the domestic responsibilities. Only over the last 2 decades have we seen significant advances towards men and women, husbands and wives, becoming partners once again. We may not be plowing fields together, but men are beginning to share in the home-life duties that used to solely belong to women. Women are taking the field in areas that only men used to occupy, such as the military, the sciences, and space programs. Thus, hundreds of years after the Industrial Revolution began, women are still fighting for equality in the arena that that revolution forced them into.

Another change that had a negative impact on women was the loss of control they had as head of their households of production, along with the considerable sums of money they could generate. There was no concept of a " principle male bread winner" prior to the revolution - all were productive and the women was doubly so. She would bake, weave, raise pigs, etc. and whatever was left after her househo

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