Why Did the Proportion of Women Working as Sales Clerks

question 142

Multiple Choice

Why did the proportion of women working as sales clerks increase in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

• A) Sales jobs were attractive to women because that offered better working conditions than factory jobs.
• B) Managers in department stores considered female cashiers to be much more trustworthy that male cashiers.
• C) Sales jobs demanded many different skills that women usually possessed.
• D) Sales jobs usually led to the managerial positions that most working women desired.

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