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Domestic Service, Migration and the Social Status of Women at Marriage: The Case of a Dutch Sea Province, Zeeland 1820-1935

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Historical social research, (1998)

Abstract

Abstract: Some scholars have seen female domestic service as a ‘bridging occupation’, facilitating the migration of women from the countryside to the cities and enabling them to make advantageous marriages and become upwardly socially mobile. However, previous research has yielded contradictory results with regard to the marriages of female servants. On the basis of 1800 marriage records, in this article it has been estimated how Social background, occupation and migration determined the Status at marriage of women in the province of Zeeland the Netherlands. in the period 1820-1935, When holding everything equal, just exercising the occupation of domestic Service didn’t result in marriages with men of higher social positions as could be expected given the Status of the job. However, living in a city by the time of one’s marriage, did indeed offer women greater chances on a high status marriage.

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