title: [Aspects of women's status and employment in Rome during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries].
abstract: The status of unmarried women in Rome during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is examined.  "The structure of the domestic groups where widows, spinsters and women temporarily alone lived and of which they were the head has been analysed as well as the socioeconomic conditions of these 'solitary women'.... Almost always the female heads of a family were widows, [heirs] to a trading and/or artisan activity that they could manage temporarily only.  As a matter of fact strict rules provided that a man should manage any kind of firm."  Data are from parish registers. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Porrri
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schiavoni
mesh_terms: D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005060:Europe; D005191:Family Characteristics; D007558:Italy; D017533:Marital Status; D008393:Marriage; D011154:Population Characteristics; D012042:Registries; D012106:Research; D012847:Single Person; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D017805:Widowhood; D014933:Women's Rights
keywords: Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Europe; Family And Household; Head Of Household; Historical Survey; Households; Italy; Marital Status; Mediterranean Countries; Nuptiality; Parish Registers; Population Statistics; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status--history; Southern Europe; Unmarried--women; Widowed; Women's Status--history