TY - JOUR
T1 - Working women in France, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Where, when, and which women were in work at marriage?
AU - Zijdeman, Richard L.
AU - van Leeuwen, Marco H D
AU - Rébaudo, Danièle
AU - Pélissier, Jean Pierre
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - We look at women's labour force participation for the whole of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We study to what extent young women were working at the time of their marriage, in which occupations, and how differences in labour force participation might be explained. Using a sample of 53,451 marriage records from the TRA project, we identify regional and temporal differences in rates of female labour force participation and in types of work in France between 1860 and 1986.We observe rather stable levels of female labour force participation between 1860 and 1950 of about 60 per cent, but higher levels in the second half of the twentieth century. Over time, women started to work across virtually all occupational sectors. Regional differences declined over time but continued to exist in the late twentieth century. We formulate a set of hypotheses to explain which women worked, taking into account their resources, as well as their expectations, in a male-breadwinner-dominated society. The results of our hierarchical logistic analysis indicate that women with fewer parental resources were more likely to work.
AB - We look at women's labour force participation for the whole of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We study to what extent young women were working at the time of their marriage, in which occupations, and how differences in labour force participation might be explained. Using a sample of 53,451 marriage records from the TRA project, we identify regional and temporal differences in rates of female labour force participation and in types of work in France between 1860 and 1986.We observe rather stable levels of female labour force participation between 1860 and 1950 of about 60 per cent, but higher levels in the second half of the twentieth century. Over time, women started to work across virtually all occupational sectors. Regional differences declined over time but continued to exist in the late twentieth century. We formulate a set of hypotheses to explain which women worked, taking into account their resources, as well as their expectations, in a male-breadwinner-dominated society. The results of our hierarchical logistic analysis indicate that women with fewer parental resources were more likely to work.
KW - France
KW - labour force participation
KW - labour market
KW - marriage
KW - migration
KW - occupations
KW - women
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84911981241&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1081602X.2014.967266
DO - 10.1080/1081602X.2014.967266
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84911981241
SN - 1081-602X
VL - 19
SP - 537
EP - 563
JO - The History of the Family
JF - The History of the Family
IS - 4
ER -