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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