What were the changes in the kind of work available to women in London between the 19th and the 20th centuries ?
The different kinds of work available to women in London between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were as mentioned below : Factories employed large number of women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With technological developments, women gradually lost their industrial jobs and were forced to work within households. The 1861 census recorded a quarter of a million domestic servants in London, of whom the vast majority were women, many of them recent migrants. A large number of women used their homes to increase family income by taking in lodgers or through such activities as tailoring, washing or matchbox making. There was a change once again in the twentieth century. As women got employment in wartime industries and offices, they withdrew from domestic service.
