Talk:Surplus women

I looked to see if there was anything about dilution (see resistance to dilution or Weekend munition work for educated women on wikipedia, but there is not. This would seem to relate to teh work you are doing.Leutha (talk) 12:42, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Worker, Housewife and/or Mother?
On relection, I think we have two issues here - one is the need for economic security and the other is the need for family and children. So In fact we have the following. Mcsony (talk) 11:45, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) thrown off the land
 * 2) want economic security
 * 3) want family
 * 4) not enough jobs
 * 5) not enough men

Women in trousers!!!
Another issue is the difficulty of society adjusting to the new realities of unmarried women, whether employed or not. ErrantX calls this "Moral Panic" which is the perfect term IMHO. Mcsony (talk) 11:45, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 * That term came from one of the sources, btw. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, I think. From what the source set out the problem probably existed before; but the 1850 census highlighted the issue. And this resulted in a, basically media-led, panic about these "poor women". BTW I now have the Singled Out source - if I can drag myself away from the Football tonight I was planning to start working through it. --Errant (chat!) 11:56, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Marriage bar
The article describes marriage bars as obstructions to economic means, but surely at least part of the point of a marriage bar was to increase opportunities for unmarried "surplus" women? Robina Fox (talk) 15:44, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Original use of the term
This article fails to place the original use of the term. Saying the industrial revolution (c 1770-1820) is too unspecific and contradicts the rest of the article which concerns later periods. The referenced text books are hard to locate. The "agricultural productivity that stimulated population growth" comment is unsourced and wrong. Even 200 years ago Britain was a net food importer. --FDent (talk) 13:15, 21 May 2022 (UTC)