A new social housing experiment in London seems to draw on Edwardian ideas of single women’s limited lives, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
describes a network of organisations with the same mission, housing women who were respectable but poor – including the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, which converted a London townhouse into 57 lodgings for single women.
This perception of single women as a vulnerable group – part child, part victim – echoes through not just the developments themselves but the objections to them: won’t such a concentration attract predatory men? Won’t women feel threatened living in a high-rise? These arguments, made by Ealing residents, had a tang of nimbyism, post-justified: why would women be scared of 15 storeys, are we all meant to be afraid of heights now? The insult of being characterised as somehow weaker or less...
I remain highly sceptical of gendered takes on market failures, but this is a moment in our economic history to stand still and consider. Danny Dorling, a professor of human geography, once defined the servant class as one in which you can’t afford to have children because your pay isn’t high enough. He was working out from a Victorian definition, in which live-in servants were actively barred from having families of their own.
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