Women at work in the pre-Civil War United States: an analysis of unreported family workers
Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 per cent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and societal expectations of female's role, and lack of accurate or thorough enumeration by Census officials. This paper develops an augmented free female labor force participation rate for 1860. It is calculated by identifying free women (age 16 and older) who were likely providing informal and unenumerated labor for market production in support of a family bu... Show more
Authors: Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn Halenda
Published: Bonn, Germany, IZA, 2020
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 35 p.
Access item: https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13424/women-at-work-in-the-pre-civil-war-united-states-an-analysis-of-unreported-family-workers
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