Victorian Women and Financial Independence

spinster: Never expected to support themselves, women of a certain class, were passed from father to husband and taken care of in a fashion dictated by the men in their lives, according to Rabble. But, what happens if father dies before you marry and you're left a spinster with no prospects on the horizon More importantly, what if father left an insufficient inheritance and you find yourself living in poverty with no way out It becomes clear that real freedom is found through financial independence and the best way to ensure that is by earning your own income. Set in 1880 London, the play laid bare the predicament of Victorian women. This holds true today. This discrepancy is referred to as the gender wage gap. The conundrum remains, how can women achieve and maintain financial independence when female dominated jobs are undervalued, contractual, with limited to no benefits Even when women manage to secure full-time positions with benefits on average they earn 70 per cent of what their male counterparts are paid. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.