Abstract

CERDA, Juan Manuel. Los Censos históricos como fuente para el estudio de la participación femenina en el mercado: El caso de la provincia de Mendoza a comienzos del siglo XX. Mora (B. Aires) [online]. 2009, vol.15, n.1. ISSN 1853-001X.

The insertion of women in the labor market in the early 20th century is an issue scarcely explored by traditional historians and it deserves an individual analysis, not only from the point of view of the gender, but also as a social group that was affected by the capitalist development of the agro-exporting Argentina. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the potential and the limitations of the information provided by the national census of 1896, 1895, and 1914 in order to recreate the female contribution to the labor market. The forementioned process determined a change in the labor market as a whole that, according to some papers, brought along the reduction of the female share in the first decades of the 20th century. This paper aims to argue that point, based on the study of the province of Mendoza. This province is significant given that, in the early 20th century, the production of wine became the main productive activity, thus transforming the labor market and having a distinctive impact on women.

Keywords : Labor market; Female labor; Gender; Mendoza; National Census; Productive transformation.

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