Statistics on GaW

GaW in numbers

• The GaW database contains 42,599 observations of activities carried out by women and men to support themselves and those close to them.
  
• Of these, 21 per cent were undertaken by women, 73 per cent by men and 7 per cent by people of unknown sex.
  
• 63 per cent of the observations come from court records, 22 per cent from account books and 16 per cent from other sources.
  
• 9 per cent of the observations come from the 16th century, 27 per cent from the 17th century, 35 per cent from the 18th century and 29 per cent from the 19th century.
  

(Updated in February 2024)