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Gender Issues in Management
Early Women in Business

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Early Women in Business

In our ignorance (and somewhat self-centredness), we tend to think of women in management as a new phenomenon, but according to this coroner's report from the year 1207, this just isn't so:

 

 
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Social conservatives have blamed Betty Friedan for luring women out of their homes and into the work world but we were already there in numbers large enough to have an effect on society when Friedan wrote her famous book in 1963. It partly started with the Second World War when women were needed in the factories and other work places to replace the men who were needed on the front lines. Families found that two paycheques were helpful, and women found that working outside the home was often more meaningful than just being at home. It was Betty Friedan who let out the secret that cake mix manufacturers added to the instructions to add two eggs so that women using their cake mixes would feel they had contributed more to the process of making the cake! Talk about feeling fulfilled! No wonder work outside the home had begun to look appealing.

This is a Writing Intensive Course

 

Exercise
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Using the piece on the early history of women in management, write a statement that demonstrates the "epistemological showdown" and one that is an "i" statement. I will use these to try to be sure you know the difference between these two important terms which you will need to use in your assignments. Click below to review these terms.
The Epistemological Showdown i Statements

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Exercise
Grading Essays
In your own words, not those from the website, what is the difference between these four terms?
Content, Relevance, Style, Structure

 

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AK/ADMS/WMST3120 3.0 Gender Issues in Management
York University, Toronto
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