Maggy

A lot of low paid service jobs are filled by women who are forced to work because the families finances need to be supplemented but they have to do part time work to fit in around the family.Also families have changed in make up these days.There are a lot of single parent families usually headed by women whom are vying for well paid jobs because their estranged partner isn't prepared to support their offspring.

So many working class women like me thought/think that getting the qualifications to get further through the workplace was/is a necessity because they don't want to be wholly dependent upon the men in their lives.
Having seen my mother who had no qualifications struggle after the death of my father to find and keep a job that wasn't poorly paid certainly galvanised me into working much harder to get the qualifications that would free me from a life of drudgery.At the time equality for women hadn't been enshrined in law and I was determined that I would be able to support myself all by myself.