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Politics and Culture in Early America

Lectures in History

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Women's Opportunity in a Growing Rental Market

boarding houses were a very particular and popular form ofa employment opportunity for women in this period. For example, we see a woman named lydia escildon operating a boarding house at a hundred and 15 broad street in 18 ten. And another thing that we can surmise from what we see here is that there's a possibility that women were finding opportunity in a growing rental market. Ya giovano, that women were capable of making money. If you're a corporat business owner and you're constructing these buildings, you want to turn a profit from them. So if you're going allow women to use them or be in them, they have to be producing some sort of money

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