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Chapter 3 addresses the types of work that women performed during the Civil War for the federal government and how they were received and regulated as employees by male coworkers and supervisors. Women’s labor in the federal government is examined over three broad categories: the types of jobs women performed (including manual and clerical), how supervisors regulated and viewed female employees, and women’s relationships with their coworkers and workspaces. Because supervisors enjoyed great autonomy and because clerical work in the 1860s was largely undifferentiated, supervisors, male coworkers, and female clerks had choices to make as to how to incorporate women into the federal bureaucracy. While some women were able to secure positions that were worthy of their abilities, traditional conceptions of gender ultimately hamstrung female clerks’ efforts to achieve the respect and advancement potential available to men. |
