"Neither forget nor remember your sex”: sexual politics in the early twentieth-century Canadian office

Boyer, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8356-4412 2003. "Neither forget nor remember your sex”: sexual politics in the early twentieth-century Canadian office. The Journal of Historical Geography 29 (2) , pp. 212-229. 10.1006/jhge.2002.0418

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Abstract

This paper examines social relationships in the early twentieth-century Canadian corporate workplace, focusing on Quebec—where the majority of the nation's financial services industry was located. I argue that in the course of building new networks for the flow of information and capital, women and men in the early twentieth-century white-collar workplace also produced new meanings about work and gender. This paper has two parts. Part one charts an overview of when clerical work feminized in Quebec, drawing on published census data and a 10% sample of the 1901 nominal census of Montreal. Drawing on personnel files and company journals from several Canadian financial institutions, part two explores social rules and mores about contact across differences—particularly of gender and religious affiliation—in the early twentieth-century white-collar workplace.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Subjects:	F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1001 Canada (General) H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Publisher:	Elsevier
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 08:46
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/72042

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