The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Women “Women have always worked, constantly, continuously, always and everywhere, in every type of society in every part of the world since the beginning of human time.” (H.G. Cremonesi) Traditionally “a women’s place was in the home” - the private sphere, while the man occupied the public sphere (office or factory). When the Industrial Revolution transformed the workplace in the 18th century, it also transformed the …showed first 75 words of 848 total…

…showed last 75 words of 848 total…wives, becoming partners once again. We may not be plowing fields together, but men are beginning to share in the home-life duties that used to solely belong to women. Women are taking the field in areas that only men used to occupy, such as the military, the sciences, and space programs. Thus, hundreds of years after the Industrial Revolution began, women are still fighting for equality in the arena that that revolution forced them into.