Industrialization converted women from producers to consumers and opened teaching to them

Evidence

Middle class women, remaining at home to care for children and all other domestic duties, found their lives radically changed. No longer needed to produce the necessary daily goods, and excluded for the most part from the newly expanding world of commerce, women were exiled to a new social position. From primary producers of the family’s daily goods, they became transformed into consumers of now factory-produced goods. … Using a discourse and set of metaphors that otherwise subordinated them, women asserted a powerful new identity for themselves that would include becoming the nation’s first public school teachers. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 701

Categorization

• XREF: Shows a gender parallel to the consumer-culture building on the earlier claim about hyper-consumer society. — connects to: Capitalist economic change, not feminism, drove women into the workforce — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 303; Capitalism’s displacement of women from production turned them into science’s audience — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 1013; The baby boom created an exceptional academic job market for women — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2466

Broader Connections

• Capitalist economic change, not feminism, drove women into the workforce #corroborates (0.85) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 303
• Capitalism’s displacement of women from production turned them into science’s audience #expands (0.82) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 1013
• The baby boom created an exceptional academic job market for women #qualifies (0.72) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2466