Women who migrate, women who stay. Contribution to a study about the relationship among women, agrarian economy and emigration. Galicia, 1880-1930

Abstract

First, this paper analyses the lack of research that deals with the implications of women in the migratory phenomenon in Galicia and their degree of participation in the same. The paper is then structured in two parts, the first bearing the most weigh, where an analysis is made on how male emigration increased the number of duties women were already fulfilling in the family household. In the second part, an approach is made towards the characteristics that lead to the incorporation of Galician women in migratory flows, outlining a clearly progressive tendency.