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Women's Quest For Occupational Equality: The Case Of Jewish Female Agricultural Workers in Pre-State Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2008

Yossi Katz  and
Shoshana Neuman
Yossi Katz
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Shoshana Neuman
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
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There is a common belief that Israeli women have achieved gender equality over and above that attained in America and European countries. Evidence cited to support this is the fact that women routinely serve in the Israeli army and the country elected a woman, Golda Meir, as prime minister. Equality between men and women is claimed to date back to the days at the beginning of the century when both sexes worked shoulder to shoulder in road construction and land reclamation (Bernstein, 1992: 2). The years 1904–14 and 1919–23, known in Zionist history as the Second and Third Aliyah (waves of immigration), were indeed formative times during which the dominant values of the society were shaped and the infrastructure of future organizations was laid (Eisenstadt, 1967; Izraeli, 1981). The immigrants who arrived during this period, known as halutzim (male pioneers) and halutzot (female pioneers) were idealistic nationalists from Eastern Europe. They were young and single, and came with the express purpose of rebuilding Zion and creating a new type of egalitarian and labor-oriented society.

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Rural History , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , April 1996 , pp. 33 - 52
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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