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called Au Bonheur des Dames,
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which is about a department store,
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it's about the department store Bon Marche, in Paris.
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For these young women get really miserable jobs,
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and what they're doing is they're sleeping in dormitories,
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under horrible, sort of draconian regulations about what they can do.
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But for them to get those kinds of jobs they have to be able to count,
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they have to be able to read, they have to be able to write.
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And so women's education increases
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dramatically during this whole time.
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But what does not change is the prestige that the schoolteachers have,
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that they maintain as representing not only national identity