Balancing Equality for the Post-War Woman: Demobilising Canada's Women Workers After World War Two 1

Authors

  • Jennifer A. Stephen York University

Keywords:

Domesticity, EMPLOYMENT (Economic theory), Housekeeping,

Abstract

Canadian federal officials assumed women would be uninterested in paid work after World War Two. "I want to get a post-war job," while a familiar refrain, found little accommodation in the post-war regime of the Canadian welfare state. Instead, government officials, women and men alike, carefully balanced liberal rights discourses alongside the priority of female domesticity.

Author Biography

  • Jennifer A. Stephen, York University
    Jennifer Stephen, York University, is the author of Pick One Intelligent Girl: Employability, Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada's Welfare State, 1939-1947 (2007).

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Published

2007-10-01

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 1 (2007): Volume 32, Number 1 (2007)

Section

Labouring Feminism Thematic Cluster

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