AGES ERA PERIOD
VICTORIAN AGE
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Question
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They remained unmarried due to a population imbalance between the sexes.
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Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price.
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They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics.
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They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didn’t provide extensive job opportunities to women.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Victorians believed that a woman’s proper and only place was to be within a household environment. The women were expected to marry, have children, and keep a nice household. Those were the only acceptable roles for women during that era.
Detailed explanation-2: -The woman question of the Victorian era was the questioning of how women fit into society, mostly concerning political and legal rights, especially for women without husbands or without high-class status.
Detailed explanation-3: -Free-spirited and independent, educated and uninterested in marriage and children, the figure of the New Woman threatened conventional ideas about ideal Victorian womanhood.
Detailed explanation-4: -Women were generally expected to marry and perform household and motherly duties rather than seek formal education. Even women who were not successful in finding husbands were generally expected to remain uneducated, and to take a position in childcare (as a governess or as a supporter to other members of her family).