Trade, Professions and Education: Women in Puerta de Tierra, Puerto Rico, 1910

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Primary Sources and the Design of Research Projects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The purpose of this research is to identify the types of trade and professions carried out by women who lived on the Puerta de Tierra neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico using data from the population census of 1910. The information contained in the census allows the study of women by looking at specific variables such as their age group, household composition, place of origin, place of employment, type of work and literacy level, among other things. The data can be further analyzed to shed light on the conditions under which women worked, the types of jobs available by age group, and if certain trades took place in specific parts of the neighborhood. Consultation and analysis of photographers showing women as part of the workforce enhances our knowledge of the types of material culture associated to trades and professions and can be used to create models on the type of artifacts that could have been present in their workplaces.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Primary Sources and the Design of Research Projects

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Abstract Id(s): 25125