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SUMMARY:The gender division of labour in Early Modern England: a new appro
 ach with new findings - Professor Jane Whittle\, University of Exeter
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:This paper presents the main findings of a Leverhulme Trust fu
 nded research project on ‘Women’s work in rural England\, 1500-1700: a
  new methodological approach’.  The methodology used aims\, as far as po
 ssible\, to mimic modern time-use surveys\, by collecting incidental data 
 about the types of work activities people were engaged in from court docum
 ents.  In doing so it moves away from conventional approaches to the histo
 rical division of labour\, which have relied either on didactic literature
  or records of wage labour.  It also deploys a definition of work derived 
 from Margaret Reid’s third party criterion\, as an activity that could b
 e replaced with purchased goods or services.  The project has collected in
 formation about 4300 work tasks undertaken by men and women from three typ
 es of court document (church court depositions\, quarter sessions examinat
 ions and coroners’ reports) from the southwestern counties of Cornwall\,
  Devon\, Somerset\, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Initial analysis shows that w
 omen dominated housework and care work\, as we might expect\, but their in
 volvement in other areas of the economy was also high. Using figures that 
 compensate for the under-recording of women’s tasks\, women carried out 
 37% of agricultural tasks\, 44% of tasks in craft production\, 44% of food
  processing tasks\, and 51% of petty commerce.  Together housework and car
 e work made up only 26% of the work tasks recorded for women.  The paper w
 ill these findings\, making comparisons with other similar studies of Swed
 en and SW Germany for the early modern period.
LOCATION:Old Library\, Darwin College
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