New forms of women labour participation. Qualified workers in Jaén (1935)

Abstract

The objective is to analyse in the first third of the 20th century through the labour market of the city of Jaén how the development of the services sector was the main economic engine for the incorporation and presence of women in schools, hospitals and offices. The important growth of teaching professionals as teachers and professors; of health care as nurses and midwives mainly; and the gradual incorporation into office work as employees, telegraphers, telephonists, typists, writers, etc. it was symptomatic of a change of great importance as was the incorporation essentially of middle-class women into work.