Women and their Money 1700–1950 doc

[...]... Laurence, Josephine Maltby and Janette Rutterford Historians working in social and economic history and in women s and gender history usually discuss the economics of women s lives in terms of poverty, powerlessness and absence of money and of waged and unwaged work Women s financial affairs have made little impact on accounting history, business history or financial history Where moneyed women have attracted... the fifteenth century of the need for women to supervise their revenues and expenses, not hesitating to enquire for details of their agents and paymasters, and reviewing their records Wives should be wise and sound administrators and manage their affairs well They should have all the responsibility of the administration and know how to make use of their revenues and possessions [A wife] ought to... post-industrial-revolution women s work, and the wider influence of socialist feminism, has focused their attention on women as employees, and their relations with employers and with men in the workplace There is a consensus that women were essential to the process of industrialisation and that its effects had different consequences for men and for women. 41 But there is little in the literature that touches upon women who... freedom of action and can be seen as an extension of the convention of feme coverte Women and account-keeping A connection between women s ability to run their own businesses and to make or at least understand their own investments is provided by their understanding of accounting It is clear that women from the Middle Ages onwards were accustomed to keep records of household expenditure and were assisted... African Company senior shares, Ps, and engrafted shares, Pe and Bank of England shares (BOFE) 4.1 Number of women s stock and lottery purchases through Hoare’s Bank 1718–25 4.2 Number of women s stock and lottery sales through Hoare’s Bank 1718–25 4.3 Number of women s dividend and interest payments and lottery prizes though Hoare’s Bank 1718–25 4.4 Value of women s stock and lottery purchases through Hoare’s... 1718–25 4.5 Value of women s stock and lottery sales through Hoare’s Bank 1718–25 4.6 Value of women s dividends and interest payments and lottery prizes through Hoare’s Bank 1718–25 8.1 Women as a percentage of shareholders in British and Irish stock companies, 1780–1851 8.2 Women as a percentage of first shareholders in new joint-stock companies, Britain and Ireland, 1780–1850 8.3 Women as a percentage... put their money into capitalist enterprises, whether as large-scale investors or as working women looking for a return on their savings Studies of savings have tended to concentrate on friendly societies and the cooperative movement and such smallscale schemes as Christmas clubs.42 Coverture and women s real and personal property Married women under English common law were prevented by the legal doctrine... detailed information about women s finances than men’s, especially for earlier periods Married women s money was commonly inseparable from their husbands’ and, while there are a good many women s account books and wills, it is often difficult to reconstruct from them either the whole amount or the constitution of the entire portfolio of money and property owned by the account-keeper Many women s finances were... Introduction 3 married women and limited independence for unmarried or widowed women So a significant theme of this book is women s agency The chapters in this book are concerned with two broad themes: one is women s command of financial and investment knowledge and the other is investment behaviour They identify key features of women s financial and investment behaviour for the various periods and territories... affairs, their attitudes to risk, their participation in the market, and the professionalisation of banking, stockbroking and accounting Men are generally assumed to outnumber women so overwhelmingly that women s financial behaviour scarcely signifies or is merely supplementary to men’s When women are considered, they are taken to be conservative both in choice of investments and in their management, and women . explain Standard Oil and Wal-Mart Anne Mayhew 15 Women and their Money 1700–1950 Essays on women and finance Edited by Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby and Janette. and works on early modern women in Britain and Ireland. She has a particular interest in women and patronage and in how women paid for the objects of their