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Both of your articles are excellent choices. Please pick the one you would prefer to work on for the rest of the term. You can go ahead and start looking for the information sources that will be used to support the passage you have chosen. Please let your classmates know which passage you chose, as they will also be looking for supporting articles/information.

--Librarydenyse (talk) 12:37, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Moved the second passage and your observations here so that it is clearer to your group members what they need to contribute.--Librarydenyse (talk) 20:23, 24 July 2015 (UTC) Women's history

Changes came in the 19th and 20th centuries; for example, for women the right to equal pay is now enshrined in law. Women traditionally ran the household, bore and reared the children, were nurses, mothers, wives, neighbors, friends, and teachers. During periods of war, women were drafted into the labor market to undertake work that had been traditionally restricted to men. Following the wars, they invariably lost their jobs in industry and had to return to domestic and service roles.

The history of Scottish women in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century was not fully developed as a field of study until the 1980s. In addition, most work on women before 1700 has been published since 1980. Several recent studies have taken a biographical approach, but other work has drawn on the insights from research elsewhere to examine such issues as work, family, religion, crime, and images of women. Scholars are also uncovering women's voices in their letters, memoirs, poetry, and court records. Because of the late development of the field, much recent work has been recuperative, but increasingly the insights of gender history, both in other countries and in Scottish history after 1700, are being used to frame the questions that are asked. Future work should contribute both to a reinterpretation of the current narratives of Scottish history and also to a deepening of the complexity of the history of women in late medieval and early modern Britain and Europe.

I chose these passages as I'm a communications student with an interest in the art of persuasion- persuasive writing and speaking didn't come easy to me through course work so I found it very interesting. The Persuasion article is well referenced except for its history section which is important. I chose the women's history article as I take women's studies classes whenever possible- this is another history passage that is unreferenced which is concerning. Historical information must be backed up with evidence.