Female domestic workers wages in Argentina, 1908-1956

Abstract

The studies of history and gender inequalities were increased in the lasts fifty years. In the Argentine’s case, there are excellent researches about workers women. Also, there are good studies about the invisibility of domestic labour, unpaid, as well as domestic workers. In this aspect, there is still a vacancy about knowing the female workers at domestic service. Therefore, this works presents and analyses the evolution of the salaries of female domestic workers in Buenos Aires city in the long term. We use different sources that allow building continuous and homogeneous series. That is analysed with other relevant economic indicators such as GDP and unemployment. These allow us to observe the impact of the cycles and economic context in the domestic service female workers in the short and long term.