Discovering Womens Work
2010
While the range and nature of Canadian womens work has varied at times and places due to a variety of factors, that work has usually contributed to the family economy. The discussion here focuses on women who were married during the period from just prior to the First World War until the end of the Second World War. Data were gathered from a sample of 22 ever-married women using unstructured face-to-face interviews. Immersion and crystallization were used to analyse the data. Similarities were found in womens experiences during early transitions in marriage, including the mar- riage bar and making ends meet. Fairly quickly, however, the effect of socioeconomic status became more salient. Four categories of womens experiences were identified, including volunteer work, paid work for extras, necessary but hidden paid work, and family provisioning by single women. It is apparent from this study that womens work included not only paid and unpaid work, but Goffma- nian labor that contributed to their fa...
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