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How industrialized was Europe is again difficult to quantify in terms of the number of people employed in the industrial sector unless you're suggesting they far outstripped the agricultural sector which I don't think was the case in Europe in the 19th century. That would have to be an extremely...

Developing countries have only NOW started industrializing on a mass scale whereas Europe had undergone it in the 19th & 20th century having come out of it nearly 3-4 decades ago which is why they see themselves rightly as post industrial societies. That's not the case with us . The roots of...

Unfortunately the data at hand doesn't quantify the number of women employed in the formal or informal sector but given the wide & wild disparities in the distribution of wealth in Victorian UK , I'm willing to take a leap in imagination to suggest that the participation of women in tne...

If upto 28% of the working women were employed as per the article I've linked in my previous post , mostly in the domestic service i.e - position of maids & governess's & apart from the garments & other core industrial sectors that still counts for something. It may do nothing to boost or...

I think both of you seem to be arguing on the basis of a fallacy that women weren't employed in the industrial sector before the 20th century. There's plenty of evidence to suggest otherwise. Here's an example of the UK going back to the mid 19th century with evidence of the participation of...