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SUMMARY:The Enumeration of Women’s Work in the 19th Century Census (Some
  Evidence to Suggest It Was Not So Bad) - Sophie McGeevor (Cambridge Group
 \, Cambridge)
DTSTART:20121112T130000Z
DTEND:20121112T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The nineteenth century census is a much maligned source\, dism
 issed by such doyens of gender history as Leonore Davidoff and Catherine H
 all\, ‘so unreliable as to be almost useless’. The work of women who w
 ere not heads of household\, and particularly the wives of heads of househ
 olds\, has been presented as significantly under-enumerated. However\, to 
 date there are no empirical studies which support an outright indictment o
 f all the nineteenth century censuses’ enumeration of all women’s work
 \, and yet in much of the secondary literature this is how the evidence is
  framed. This paper presents the results of a nominal linkage exercise bet
 ween a mid-century Hertfordshire trade directory and  the 1851 census for 
 the same county\, in order to address the hypothesis that when women were 
 ‘regularly employed’ they were fully enumerated in the census. 
LOCATION:Room 101\, Sir William Hardy Building\, Downing Site
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