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Important change took place in the lives of women in the 19th century. When men went out from
their farms to cities to seek jobs in industry, peasant women had to take over the sowing, growing, and
harvesting of the fields as well as caring for cattle and raising their children. When women also moved
to the cities in search of work, they found that it was increasingly. Separated by sex and that employment
opportunities for women were limited to the lower-paid jobs. Later in the century, women in industry
gathered mainly in cloth-making factories, though some worked in mining or took similarly difficult and tiring
jobs.
In the 1800s, service work also absorbed (吸纳) a great number of women who arrived in the cities from
the country. Young women especially took jobs as servants in middle-class and upper-class homes; and as
more and more men were drawn into industry, homestic service (家庭服务) because increasingly a female
job. In the second half of the century, however, chances of other service work also opened up to women,
from sales jobs in shops to teaching and nursing. These jobs came to be done mainly by women and low paid.
For thousands of years, when almost all work was done on the family farm or in the family firm
(家庭作坊),home and workplace had been the same, In these cases, women could do farm work or hand
work, and perform home duties such as child care and preparation of meals at the same time, Along with the
development of industry, the central workplace, however, such as the factory and the department store,
separated home from work, Faced with the necessity for women to choose between home and workplace,
Western society began to give particular attention to the role of women as homemakers with more energy
than ever before.
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1. We learn from the first paragraph that _____ had been done chiefly by men before they went to
cities to seek jobs.
A. mining, teaching, and nursing
B. sewing clothes and mining
C. soeing, growing, and harvesting
D. caring for cattle and growing crops
2. Domestic service because a female job mainly because _____.
A. more and more women began to work in domestic service
B. women mainly worked as servants, nurses, and miners
C. service and industrial jobs absorbed more women than men
D. women enjoyed working as sellers, teachers, and miners
3. We know from the passage that in the 1800s _______.
A. more and more women began to work in domestic service
B. women mainly worked as servants,nurses,and miners
C. service and industrial jobs absorbed more women than men
D. women enjoyed working as sellers,teachers,and miners
4. This passage is about _____ in the 19th century.
A. service and industry
B. female and male jobs
C. women and their work
D. female jobs and the pay
