Centauri women and work: actually when making my "noblewomen" qualification I wasn't thinking about "good" jobs like teaching, or solid middle class Centauri. I was thinking of the fact that all patriarchies in all eras had absolutely no problem exploiting the female workforce when it came to what can be roughly called the working class. Nothing to do with equal opportunities for women, everything to do with exploitation. Roman female slaves didn't have it easier and weren't "just" there for the sex, 19th century England had no problem with female weavers being worked to death, etc.
Re: educational jobs, though, here we actually have a bit of on screen canon - the lady who is with the children Londo tells his story to in In the Beginning (leaving aside Peter David's identification of her as Senna in the books) is decidedly not their mother, but in charge of them, which in all likelihood makes her their governess. Governess is the type of in-between job I can see the poorer noblewomen and/or middle class Centauri women having - not quite a servant, but definitely not an equal.
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Date: 2009-09-29 09:50 am (UTC)Re: educational jobs, though, here we actually have a bit of on screen canon - the lady who is with the children Londo tells his story to in In the Beginning (leaving aside Peter David's identification of her as Senna in the books) is decidedly not their mother, but in charge of them, which in all likelihood makes her their governess. Governess is the type of in-between job I can see the poorer noblewomen and/or middle class Centauri women having - not quite a servant, but definitely not an equal.