Your Questions About Women's Platforms

Linda asks…

My husband found a very old shoe in our attic. Women's lace up...?

You can still read the style number on the inside. Does anyone now how I can determine the year and maker of this shoe?? It appears to be about the 1940s era. It has a platform heel. And it is all leather. I have looked and it is definitely not from the 1970s. Any help will be greatly appreciated. And why isn't there a category for history or antiques??????????????

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Resale shops are sometimes useful in this kind of search. Some of the people who run them have quite an expertise on vintage clothing, and lots of interesting stories. It could make for a fun Saturday.

Mandy asks…

is my eassy good or what? help with a conclusion please!!!?

Before the late 20th century, women had few economic opportunities, men in the marriage controlled most of the economic resources and custody was often granted, especially before the mid-19th century, exclusively to the father. In such a world, liberalizing divorce laws was an essential plank in the women's rights platform. Today, while many claim that women have "all the rights" in divorce, divorced women are more likely to be less well off economically after divorce, and divorced men more likely to be better off economically. Women do not automatically lose custody of their children in most cases; the assumption is now that women are more natural or better parents unless there's strong evidence otherwise. And while women's work still does not pay 100% what the men's work pays, women have far more economic options. While it's arguable that divorce today is often too easy, it's also important to remember how much change there has been and why liberalization of divorce has helped to free women from entrapment in bad marriages. Many women were working in the 1880s. Single women have always had to work for a living, as have many poor married women. Most parents couldn't afford to support adult children at home, women had to work whether they liked it or not. Most women expected to give up work when they married; continuing to work was generally something women only did if they were very poor, though there were plenty of those. Women who were serious about pursuing careers generally stayed single, nearly half of the female college graduates in the late 19th century never married. Women pretty much took care of the kids in those days. Those who worked were probably teachers or nurses. Women didn't really join the work force until the men went to war. Very large numbers of women worked in domestic service for example, or in factories. A lot of women worked as sales clerks. More women were working in offices during the latter part of the 19th century, the invention of the typewriter led to an increase in the numbers of women being employed in offices, since it was found that they made better typists than men. They made up 40 percent of the typists and stenographers in the USA by 1880, and by 1900 it was three quarters. The Federal bureaucracy employed many women, they occupied a third of all government jobs by 1900. And thousands of women worked as telephone operators. Women worked as nurses, secretaries, teachers, nannies, waitresses, housekeepers, shop attendants, missionaries and prostitutes. While women went to sea in this era with their husbands and went fishing privately (or canoeing with their boyfriends), they did not work in sea-related jobs. So there were no women fishermen or oystermen, boatmen, steamship employees, or vessel builders/repairers. Certainly, the seafaring jobs were subject to the same cultural restraints as military work with resistance from the men themselves as well as from their wives. Women were apparently too pure and sensitive to work in alcohol-related professions. So there were no women brewers/maltsters or bartenders. A number of women, however, were restaurant and saloonkeepers apparently that was okay as long as you didn't get behind the bar. Women rode or drove horses in 1905, but apparently work-involving horses was not considered appropriate. There were no women grooms, stable workers, livery stable keepers, or harness and saddle makers/repairers. These jobs formed the largest block of professions not available to women in 1905. They included contractors, carpenters, plasterers, paperhangers, roofers, electricians, plumbers, copper workers, and masons. There were no women working as engineers and surveyors or as model and pattern makers. Though there were a handful of women architects, designers, and draughtsman. This work may have seemed more suited to the male "logical" mind, and certainly there would have been a barrier to the engineering work done as part of the building trades. It's probably also true that relatively few women were prepared mathematically for professions; a problem that unfortunately still persists in some forms today. There were no women piano tuners. This seems surprising because of the large number of women working as musicians and music teachers. i need help with a conclusion!!! can anyone help me!!! PLEASE!

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Here is just a general help with conclusions sum up the points of each paragraph briefly - be careful not to state them exactly. Briefly describe your views on the topic if you were doing a persuassive piece remember this is your last chance to convince you reader. If an argument: sum up both sides of the argument and say which one you would go for. Hope this helped

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