How Did the Participation of Married Women and Unmarried Women

question 23

Multiple Choice

How did the participation of married women and unmarried women in the industrial workforce differ in the early 1800s?

• A) Married women were paid higher wages because they had a family to provide for.
• B) Parents did not permit daughters to work in factories, preferring they stay home producing piecework.
• C) Married women remained home-based industrial workers much longer because they had to raise children.
• D) Unmarried women supplemented their wages with overtime, which married women could not do.