Mapping female employment

Maps provide an easy and powerful way of visualising and assimilating spatial data on female patterns of employment and on differences between male and female patterns. Maps of female employment in England in 1851 have been published in Shaw-Taylor, L., 'Diverse experiences: The geography of adult female employment and the 1851 census', in Goose, N., (ed.) Women's work in industrial England: Regional and local perspectives (2007). These maps show the tremendous geographical diversity in women's experience of employment in the mid-nineteenth century. We plan to investigate the earlier geography of female employment. Further maps of female and male employment from census data are currently available on the website as follows:

Mapping the economic geography of England in 1851

Mapping the occupational geography of Britain 1851-1911 (adult males and females)