Why do certain countries display high gender equalities while others display low gender
equalities? To what extent does gender equality foster economic growth and development …

This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical
periods and topics in the humanities and social sciences--especially for those who do not …

This article presents new evidence of gendered work patterns in the pre‐industrial economy,
providing an overview of women's work in early modern England. Evidence of 4,300 work …

This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across the Reformation, from the
14th–18th centuries. Combining conceptual development with empirical history, the authors …

This chapter explores how cliometrics has helped us answer five questions about the role of
women in economic history: How much did women participate in the economy? Why did …

This article revisits a question with which historians of early modern European witchcraft
have long grappled: why was the average percentage of male suspects so small …

Labour force participation was designed to measure contemporary labour markets, and
does a poor job of measuring work, particularly women's work, in the past. When we …

Based on the verb-oriented method and a unique collection of observations from court
records, this article shows that both men and women did almost all categories of work in …

Across Europe and throughout various periods, women have played a sig-nificant role in
formal and informal financial exchange. They borrowed money to make ends meet and …

Background The year 1842 saw the promulgation of Sweden's first statute on elementary
schooling, or folkskola—a “school for the people.” It was not without a prior history. Since the …