Research project Family organisation in a gender perspective, especially how women’s emancipation affected their societal status and position within family, is another key area of research for our group.
Women’s work is particularly difficult to find evidence of in historical populations. Therefore, parish registers needs complementation with other sources, such as newspaper ads and articles, court material, business statistics and employment registers. When women appear in other contexts than the family, which typically characterises the parish registers, we are able to depict their gendered occupations with significantly improved precision.
