One of the problems women trying to work ran into was the concept of marriage bars, which is a residual effect of the sex role theory. As young women who are either recently married or unmarried tried to apply for a job, the potential employer would not hire them. This was because the employer thought that as soon as a woman had children she would leave that job to raise her kids, and that time, money and resources spent training her was
One of the problems women trying to work ran into was the concept of marriage bars, which is a residual effect of the sex role theory. As young women who are either recently married or unmarried tried to apply for a job, the potential employer would not hire them. This was because the employer thought that as soon as a woman had children she would leave that job to raise her kids, and that time, money and resources spent training her was