A Gendered View of the History of Professionalization in South Africa

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Title:	A Gendered View of the History of Professionalization in South Africa
Author:	Clark, Patricia G.
Year:	1998
Periodical:	Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907)
Volume:	23
Issue:	3-4
Pages:	77-93
Language:	English
Notes:	biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:	South Africa Southern Africa
Subjects:	gender relations labour women History and Exploration Labor and Employment Women's Issues Historical/Biographical gender Professional employees socialization Sex Roles education political participation
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/24482732
Abstract:	In South Africa, African women progressively gained entry into professional occupations, starting in the early 20th century. In the early 1900s, African women entered education and nursing; in the 1930s, librarianship; in the 1940s, social work and medicine; and in the 1980s, law. This article outlines the political, economic, and ideological factors involved in African women's entry into, and survival in, professional occupations in South Africa, from 1900 to the present, with an emphasis on the 1950s, and looks briefly at the connection between women's professionalization and political involvement. App., bibliogr., notes, ref.