Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Upper class Vs. Middle class



Many of my readers have asked me about the difference between an upper class women to a middle class women. Its always interesting to me that people are confused on it but to help with the confusion I am going to explain the difference. The middle class is divided into two categories. In the upper category are known to be the skilled laborers who work with their hands, like carpenters and blacksmiths. The lower category are working men and women who provide unskilled paid labor to factories, farms and shops, or who do the dirtier jobs like fishing and butchery. This is the highest class in which women are allowed to work without social repercussions. To be known as an Upper class women you are known to be wealthy and titled. The women of the upper class never work, even in the home, but they rather spend their days socializing or shopping! They employ numerous members of the working class as servants
Upper class women socialize with no one but the upper class. They must attend all balls and social gatherings where only the upper class would attend. Upper class women also do not dress themselves. They have many servants to do that, they do not feed their children or bath them. Their servants tend to the children and get them ready. Middle class women are a bit different. Some might have servants but the women work. They are not poor but they are not  rich either. they work hard for what they have. And, have taken motherhood on more than upper class women. They bath them, feed, them and get them ready. They don'y leave everything for the servants, and they attend their own social gatherings. They do well for themselves even though not everything is handed to them like it is for upper class women. Sometimes they can't afford expensive things but they are not treated like lower class. They are respected because they are in a different category than the lower class. Instead of socializing and shopping middle class women have jobs. But with Young women are educated in the arts and languages, but were rarely taught the more demanding subjects like higher mathematics. Young girls are sent to finishing schools or boarding schools to perfect their French, but never to college. We are expected to become wives and mothers, not leaders. I never agreed with that!




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