Crediting Women in the Early Modern English Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4495043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Shepard (0000-0003-3026-7606, University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbv002 |
| OpenAlex | W2110548847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 45 |
An important assertion of recent development economics is that the reduction of gender inequality can promote economic growth, although it is more doubtful whether economic growth can, by itself, lessen gender inequality. A report published by the Fawcett Society in 2013 warned that cuts in the public sector have disproportionately affected women, whereas the sectors identified for investment (business and manufacturing) are male dominated. The analysis also showed that the gender pay gap in Britain may be increasing for the first time since official records began. The report urges the government to heed its legal duty to assess the impact of policies on gender equality. The apparent neglect of such concerns gives a hollow ring to the championing of western democracy's commitment to gender equality. More immediately, the report cautions that women's skills and talents should not be overlooked in the drive for economic recovery and growth. rom a historical perspective, one of the most interesting features of this report is the doubt it casts as to whether the relatively recent upward trend in women's labour-force participation is sustainable. This in turn, challenges the validity of the U-shaped curve conventionally used to represent trends in women's economic activity over the longer term. From a hypothetical pre-industrial peak, women's apparent retreat from the labour market during the nineteenth century has been linked by historians to rising household incomes, shifting farming systems, and industrialization. Women's subsequent return to work, especially after 1950, has been explained as a product of rising educational attainment and insatiable consumer desire. ecently critiqued as a 'statistical mirage' by Jane Humphries and Carmen Sarasua, the nadir in women's labour-force participation is attributed to a product of the myopia of census-takers who overlooked women's work while assuming men's full-time employment. 5 Debates regarding the pre-industrial period, by contrast, have rarely questioned high levels of female productive activity, but have disputed its
Economics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History
Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial Europe
On the respectability of this person every thing depends
A 'master-mistress
Pre-industrial ‘charity land’ and the dynamics of rural poverty in south-west England, 1656–1739
Mistress or maid
The Poverty of Disaster
‘I sente a woman … beecause a man shoulde have beene suspected’
More than bricks and mortar
Introduction
Girls on Forms
Worthless Witnesses? Marginal Voices and Women's Legal Agency in Early Modern England
Minding Their Own Business
Reconstructing the Labour of Care in Early Modern England
Women, Politics, and the 1723 Oaths of Allegiance to George I
Women Investors and the Virginia Company in the Early Seventeenth Century
Guilds, authority and the individual
Assessing female accountability in the long eighteenth century through debt imprisonment
Women and gender in early modern Europe
From Reformation to Improvement
Making verbs count
Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Women and Property in Early Modern England
The First Modern Economy
Off the Record
Enterprising widows and active wives
The profits of unpaid work. ‘Assisting labour’ of women in the early modern urban Dutch economy
Emissaries, allies, accomplices and enemies
Fly with a duck in thy mouth’
Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness
Married women's occupations in eighteenth-century London
Favoured or oppressed? Married women, property and ‘coverture’ in England, 1660–1800
Housewives and Servants in Rural England, 1440–1650
The Divergence of England
Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth
Consumerism in Preindustrial and Early Industrial England
Never Married
Was there an ‘industrious revolution’ before the industrial revolution? An empirical exercise for England, c. 1300-1830
Women's work, gender conflict, and labour markets in Europe, 1500-1900
Girl power
History That Stands Still
Women, Credit, and Family Relationships in England, 1300-1620
The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution
Investments in Women's Human Capital
Eleanor Mosley and Other Milliners in the City of London Companies 1700-1750
The 'revolt of the early modernists' and the 'first modern economy
Making Ends Meet
Possession-and the other one-tenth of the law
Poverty, Labour and the Language of Social Description in Early Modern England
Th'ancient Distaff' and 'Whirling Spindle
The Female Labour Market in London in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
Usury legislation, cash, and credit
The rise of agrarian capitalism and the decline of family farming in England1
The Great Reclothing of Rural England
Women's labour force participation and the transition to the male-breadwinner family, 1790-1865
Continuity and Change
Women and Property in Early Modern England
Women and Work in Pre-Industrial England
Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England
Production and consumption in English households, 1600-1750
Worth, age, and social status in early modern England1
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |