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Historians, particularly those investigating the history of women, now
seriously question this assumption of transforming power. They conclude that
such dramatic technological innovations {{U}}as the spinning jenny, the sewing
machine, the typewriter, and the vacuum cleaner have not{{/U}} resulted in equally
dramatic social changes in women's economic position or in the prevailing
evaluation of women's work. The employment of young women in textile mills
during the Industrial Revolution was largely an extension of an older pattern of
employment of young, single women as domestics. It was not the change in office
technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work, previously seen as an
apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the
1880's created a new class of "dead-end" jobs, thenceforth considered "women's
work". The increase in the numbers of married women employed outside the home in
the twentieth century had less to do with the mechanization of housework and an
increase in leisure time for these women than it did with their own economic
necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool of single
women workers, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would
hire.
The author mentions all of the following inventions as
examples of dramatic technological innovations EXCEPT the ______.
- A. sewing machine.
- B. vacuum cleaner.
- C. typewriter.
- D. telephone.
- E. spinning jenny.